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 …
Empat puluh delapan cerita dalam buku ini dipilih diterjemahkan dari buku asli "Jesus the Son of Man" karya Kahlil Gibran, seorang penyair, filsuf dan pelukis terkenal dari Libanon. Ia melukiskan seorang manusia besar dalam sejarah. Dalam hal ini Kahlil seolah-olah menginterview orang-orang yang pernah mengenal Yesus dari dekat. Ia membiarkan tiap-tiap mereka berbicara menurut tanggapan masi…
When Johann comes from Germany to make his home in Texas, he is awed at first by the vastness of the country; but from the moment the big, friendly stagecoach driver tousles his hair and calls him "Johnny texas", the boy's love for this wide and wonderful land begins to grow and grow. then war upsets the family when his father is called off to flight, and life becomes a lonely, daily struggle w…
We Must March my Darlings is an un-usually personal and wide-ranging collection of essays addressed to some of the major cultural developments of the last decade