Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perceptions of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and the twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands
"Marvellous trilogy... Fire Down Below brings the whole magical enterprise to a prosperous and happy conclusion." John Bayley, Guardian
"Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies... What makes Rites of Passage such a pleasure, and such an artistic triumph, is the verve and buoyancy which Golding brings to potent themes.' Melvyn Bragg, Punch
A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent to the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling new collection of short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the many textures of contemporary life and the logic of irrational behaviour
'Thank you spider' (George Smith to the spider that caused him to comfort marvellous Miss Martin) 'She's a tall girl with gold hair.' 'This is no missing person's bureau' 'She swings her hips when she walks.' 'What are you, desperate, mister?' 'Yes.' (George Smith trying to find much more marvellous Miss Sally Tomson.) 'Bump.' (George Smith's heart after marvellous Miss Sally Tomson sa…
Written in 1938, Nausea remains one of the peaks of Sartre's achievement. It is a novel of the alienation of personality and the mystery of being, and presents us with the first full-length essay in the philosophy for which Sartre has since become famous. Nausea is a novel of brilliant observation, wit, and psychological penetration by one of the world's front-rank intellectuals
Women in Love is about the relationship of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the first World War. Ursula fall in love with Birkin (a self-portrait of Lawrence), and Gudrun has a tragic and demoniac affair with Gerald, the son of the local colliery owner.
Malone Dies is the death-bed soliloquy of an old and helpless man, concerned to tell nothing but the truth. From his meagre recollections and resolutions and a few shreds of stories, the author of Waiting for Godot has composed what is a prose-poem rather than a novel. Beckett's feeling for words is uncanny. As memory flickers uneasily in the ashes of a dying intellect, the reader is seized by …
Skripsi ini membahas representasi fasisme versus demokrasi dalam novel Karpov's Brain karya Gerald Green dengan menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif. Tokoh sentral dalam novel ini, yaitu Abram Levitch dan Andrei Borisovich karpov merupakan penetang fasisme. Perbedaan kedua tokoh sentral tersebut adalah Abram Levitch memiliki pemikiran demokrasi tanpa mengenal perbedaan ras dan agama dan terus…
NIkmatilah kisa hseru petualangan dan perjuangan duet petarung tangguh selama mereka mengelola Hermes Temptation, sebuah forum online untuk menyalurkan tas-tas Hermes yang indah dan langka. Kisah yang mengungkap tawa dan tangis serta suka duka mereka menjalankan bisnis ini, menangkis kritik, menangkal barang tiruan, dan jungkir balik di Paris demi memperoleh tas Birkin atau Kelly yang sulit did…