The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale adalah sebuah novel tahun 1889 oleh penulis Skotlandia Robert Louis Stevenson, yang berfokus pada konflik antara dua bersaudara, bangsawan Skotlandia yang keluarganya terkoyak oleh kebangkitan Jacobite tahun 1745. Novel ini disajikan sebagai memoar seorang Ephraim Mackellar, pengurus perkebunan Durisdeer di Skotlandia. Novel ini dibuka pada tahun 174…
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.” English Classics is literature's collection with particular rooms for increase reader's interest in reading classics. This book including Emma as one of the collections. Ema is tell about a young talented girl who has interest as a matchmaker. She loves to create for others new …
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad …
Murdering the Innocent! Facts, Facts, Facts. Teach these children facts, not fancies. Sense, not Sentimentality. Comformity, not curiosity. Proof and demonstration, not poetry and drama... On this bleak tenet is run the Gradgrind model day school in Hard Times.
Never before had English readers met a heroine like Jane-small, plain, and even bold and unladylike. Never before had they read such a searching portrayal of pas. sion. Nor had they entered so completely into the character of the narrator, seeing everyone and everything through her eyes and her emotions. The first person narrative, or auto- biographical technique, had certainly been used bef…
Captain Ahab has pursued the legendary white whale Moby Dick half-way around the world to the South Seas. Now, lame and half-mad, he prepares himself for a battle to the death ... Moby Dick is one of the world's greatest sea stories. It combines a rich and detailed evocation of life on a whaler with the tension of the chase and the fascination of a dangerous and obsessive hatred.
Burmese Days merupakan karya novel George Orwell yang pertama. Novel Burmese Days terinspirasi oleh pengalamannya ketika menjadi petugas polisi di Burma pada masa pemerintahan kolonial Inggris, ketika orang pribumi dianggap lebih rendah derajatnya daripada orang kulit putih Flory, seorang pedagang kulit putih paruh baya, berteman dengan Dr. Veraswami yang berdarah India. Sang dokter terancam di…
Zadig ou la Destinée ‘Zadig atau Suratan Takdir’ (1747), merupakan hikayat pertama Volaire yang mendapat sukses besar. Kisah Voltaire sesungguhnya amat sederhana, dapat membuat pembaca dengan mudah dapat menangkap alur ceritanya ke dalam pembacaan yang linear. Suratan Takdir adalah menceritakan kisah seorang pemuda bernama Zadig, yang kaya, tampan dan dermawan, kemudian memadu kasih de…