from the back cover: Nelissa tinggal dan bersekolah di desa. Dia sengaja dititipkan kepada neneknya. Orangtuanya sangat sibuk, sehingga tidak dapat merawat dan memperhatikannya. Nelissa bersahabat dengan Morgan Mourn. Baginya, Morgan sahabat sejati yang selalu menyayangi dan membelanya. Banyak peristiwa menyenangkan dan menyedihkan yang telah dia lewati bersama sahabatnya itu. Hari-harinya ak…
Graphic novel treatment of Mary Shelley's classic novel of a scientist who brings a monster to life.
from the back cover: A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forsters great novel brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is about something wid…
from the back cover: When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortu…
from the back cover: Ify bersama keluarganya pindah dari kota Bandung ke kota Bengkulu. Ayah Ify pindah tugas ke sana. Di Bengkulu, mereka tinggal di tepi pantai yang indah. Ify sangat senang. Setiap hari dia dapat melihat indahnya pantai dan bermain pasir bersama teman-temannya. Hingga suatu hari, terjadi gempa bumi di tempat tinggal Ify. Diramalkan, gempa bumi itu menimbulkan tsunami. Semua…
from the back cover: There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutio…
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll p…
When Mildred attempts suicide, and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. First published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned. The hero, a book burner, su…