Herbert George Wells adalah seorang novelis, jurnalis, sosiolog, sekaligus sejarawan berkebangsaan Inggris. Dia lahir di Bromley, Kent, Inggris pada tanggal 21 September tahun 1866 dan meninggal saat 13 Agustus 1946 di London. Dia terkenal karena novel fiksinya, seperti The Time Machine dan The War of the Worlds, kemudaian komik yang dibuatnya, antara lain Tono-Bungay dan The History of Mr. Pol…
from the back cover: From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Children, wives, mothers, husbands, friends all have the same feelings of fear and pain, happiness and sadness.( )Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the…
Buku klasik tentang sejarah dunia ini, yang pertama kali diterbitkan pada 1920, merupakan sejarah umum yang berbasis evolusioner, sosiologis, dan antropologis. Ditulis Wells untuk “memenuhi kebutuhan para pembaca yang sibuk.” Buku ini merupakan karya agung nan klasik dari seorang sejarawan kelas dunia. Berisi lebih dari 60 bab yang menelaah puluhan topik menarik. Banyak hal baru yang ser…
Robin Hood and his Merrie Men are the heroes of Sherwood Forest. Taking from the rich and giving to the poor, Robin Hood and his loyal followers fight for the downtrodden and oppressed. As they outwit the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin Hood and his Merrie Men are led on a series of exciting adventures.
In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption.
Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer. Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far? Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He’s bossy. He’s cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie’s grandfather, a scientist who…
The sun and the moon shine down on a young boy as he spends a day by the sea. "Sun shines on the mountains, sun shines on the sea. Sun shines on my pillow, and says wake up to me."