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 …
The Mimic Men is a work of fiction about a man who grew up on a Caribbean island called Isabella (not a real island). As an adult he moved to England for a while, came back to Isabella, trying to help reconstruct it after it stopped being an English colony and ultimately failing. The story has its moments. When he describes his life on the island, his family and relatives, I see glances of a v…
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the women he loved before the war began. As Inman to make his way across the mountains, through the devasted landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he die…
Buku Chairil Anwar Pelopor Angkatan 45 ini merupakan hasil penelitian Jassin secara tunta dan menyeluruh mengenai "Sang Pelopor". Di dalamnya kita temui pula karya Chairil yang masih tersebar : sajaknya, prosanya, eseinya, dan terjemahannya. -- Sebuah buku berbobot yang pantas dimiliki setiap peminat, pencinta, dan peneliti sastra Indonesia
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