Jalan Prahara

Aku melarikan diri dari kenyataan hidup, dengan terus menerus mencari kesenangan palsu. Yang kujalani semuanya adalah kebohongan dan kepura-puraan. Dan semuanya itu dibayar oleh oenderitaan orang lain. Yang kutebar adalah kebencian, kemunafikan, kebohongan dan kejahatan. Di hadapanku tidak ada dunia lain, kecuali bayangan dan fatamorgana kebahagiaan, tipuan yang sepenuhnya aku sadari sendiri.

Don Quixote of the Mancha

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519 p.: 22 cm

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Wuthering Heights

... This dark, unforgettable story of Catherine Earnshaw and the swarthy Heathcliff 'is moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath', and Emily Bronte records the progress of their love with such truth, imagination, and emotional intensity that a plain tale of the York-shire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

Hard Times

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse Riding'…

Hard Times

In Hard Times, says George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens means to show us "that it is not our disorder but our order that is horrible; that it is not our criminals but our magnates that are robbing and murdering us ..."

A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Sebagai novel yang digolongkan pada bildungsroman atau novel perkembangan, A Portrait berkisah tentang perkembangan seorang lelaki bernama Stephen Dedalus mulai dari usia tiga tahunan hingga berusia dua puluhan tahun. Kebebasan dari kekangan agama diwujudkan Stephen Dedalus dalam bentuk meninggalkan agama, menolak mengikuti kebaktian Paskah padahal ibunya memaksa dia untuk melakukannya. Kebebas…

The Hours

In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying …

Reading Lolita In Tehran

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi'…

The Winter of Our Discontent

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311 p.: 21.5 cm

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Hummingbird Dilema Cinta

JESSE dan DAVID Penjahat dan laki-laki terhormat-sebutan itulah yang paling tepat menjelaskan perbedaan mencolok di antara kedua laki-laki itu. Jesse adalah jenis laki-laki yang dilarang keras oleh ibumu: kasar, brengsek, liar, dan memiliki sisi sensual bad boy yang susah dijelaskan. Sedangkan David adalah laki-laki impian semua perempuan; dia lembut, penyayang.... Genggaman hangat tangannya s…