1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whol…
Buku ini memuat dua novela George Eliot dengan dua ide cerita yang sangat jauh berbeda. Brother Jacob mengangkat cerita tentang hubungan dua bersaudara antara David Faux yang sangat egois serta ambisius dan kakaknya yang idiot, Jacob. David Faux, seorang anak petani Inggris, yang terbiasa makan dendeng babi dan pangsit, mempunyai ilusi menyenangkan bahwa penjual kembang gula pastilah seora…
When Lyle the Crocodile visits Mr. Primm's advertising office, he has tons of fun and makes lots of friends. He also gets Mr. Primm fired. However, Lyle manages to save Mr. Primm's career when he rescues the boss, Mr. Bigg, from the local haunted house.
World War II was the biggest and most destructive conflict in human history. This book traces in great chronological detail the course of the tragedy that befell the world. Weapons technology and conflicting indeologies combined to create a distaster that left millions tens of millions dead and much of the world in ruins.
Tuan Jones dari Pertanian Manor sangat malas dan pemabuk berat. Suatu hari dia lupa memberi makan binatang-binatang peliharaannya, maka terjadilah pemberontakan di bawah pimpinan dua babi bernama Napoleon dan Snowball. Para binatang mengambil alih pertanian itu dan berikrar untuk menghapuskan ketidaksetaraan yang sangat timpang di antara mereka. Pertanian Manor ganti nama menjadi Pertanian Hewa…
Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love…
It's time to go back to school. But Tortoise is worried. What if he falls down? What if he doesn't like lunch? What if the kids are mean to him? What if he falls down, doesn't like lunch, and the kids are mean to him? The perfect back-to-school book about being brave, with a surprise at the end!