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…
One morning there's a knock at JoeÂs door. ItÂs Osbert the penguin. HeÂs escaped from the zoo, and he and his friends (all twenty-one of them) want to travel to Antarctica for a once-in-a-century spectacle: the southern lights. Luckily Joe has a helicopter, for everyone knows that penguins canÂt fly. But when they land at the South Pole and pile out to watch the skies, it seems Osbe…
Rebel pilot Hera stars in another exciting Star Wars adventure! Featuring exciting full-color art from the show, this World of Reading early reader is perfect for fans who are ready to read on their own.
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…
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…
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adu…