Private detective Joe Dumpty, Humpty's Brother, thinks Humpty Dumpty's fall was no accident. But who have pushed him? Was it Little Miss Muffet? Old Mother Hubbard? Chicken Little? Joe has until five o'clock to question characters and catch the culprit.
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous …
The essential guide to the peculiar world-its strange history, curious customs, and most dangerous secrets-written by Miss Peregrine herself.
Sarah Winnemucca is the granddaughter of a great Pauiute Indian chief who believes in learning the ways of the white people and making peace with them.
Kafka menggambarkan betapa egoisnya manusia sekalipun itu berada dalam lingkungan keluarga sendiri. Ketika Gregor berubah wujud, begitu cepat keluarganya melupakan jasa Gregor yang telah menjadi tulang punggung perekonomian keluarganya. Gregor kini dianggapnya sebagai parasit dalam keluarga, padahal sebelumnya keluarga Gregorlah yang menjadi parasit dalam hidup Gregor. Kafka juga berbicara m…
Anak laki-laki dengan kemampuan yang luar biasa. Pasukan monster mematikan. Pertarungan epik demi masa depan dunia peculiar. Petualangan yang dimulai di buku Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children dan berlanjut di Hollow City mencapai akhir yang menegangkan di Library of Souls. Cerita dibuka dengan Jacob Portman yang berumur enam belas tahun dan baru mengetahui kemampuan dahsyat yang dim…
Essential Kafka by Franz Kafka. Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very e…
Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar—the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops—first i…