Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after 6 weeks in the States. The perfect day turns to nightmare however, when they are involved in freak ballooning accident in which a boy is saved but a man is killed. In itself, the accident would change the couple and the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, hap…
This powerful, passionate and highly acclaimed novel tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved 5 year old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, presecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardshi…
mengisahkan pergumulan karir, ambisi dan cinta dalam bahasa sederhana dan mengesankan. Kaya muatan filsafat dan menarik untuk diikuti. Tuntutan kesetaraan jender yang dikemas dalam pertentangan batin seorang perempuan, menjadikan novel ini bukan sekedar bacaan yang memberikan inspirasi tetapi juga contoh bagi perjuangan perempuan melawan dominasi di sekelilingnya.
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.
... 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.
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'…
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 ..."
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…