Nama Ajahn Brahm mendadak menyeruak di blantika perbukuan lndonsia gara-gara 'Si Cacing dan Kotoran Kesayangannya' yang menjadi bestseller di berbagai toko buku. Penerbit dibombardir testimoni pembaca dari berbagai kalangan, yang kelihatannya bukan semata-mata ingin mendapatkan hadiah kaos, namun memang berangkat dari ketulusan lubuk hati mereka yang terinspirasi dan tertransformasi oleh buku b…
"Sejak awal, perangaimu, keangkuhanmu, sikap acuh tak acuhmu, jadi landasan kebencianku padamu. Belum sebulan mengenalmu, aku sudah tahu bahwa kau adalah pria yang takkan mungkin kunikahi." Di mata Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy tidak pernah menjadi sosok yang memesona. Baginya, laki-laki itu angkuh, sombong, dan menyebalkan. Elizabeth membenci tatapannya yang merendahkan, cara bicaranya yang meremehk…
Kehidupan adalah drama yang penuh tragedi dan komedi,” kata Mom kepadaku. “Kau harus belajar untuk sedikit lebih menikmati episode-episodenya yang menggelikan.” Bersama tiga saudaranya, Jeannette Walls diasuh oleh orangtua yang idealis, nyentrik, dan tidak mau dikekang oleh peraturan yang mereka anggap konyol. Sikap dan gaya hidup seperti itu menjadi berkah sekaligus kutukan bagi m…
Taking are of your teeth is very important. Don't be like yuya, who rarely brushed her teeth after eating lots of sweets, her favorite food.
A group of gruesome mystery stories
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration—"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Nigh…
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delica…
Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes.
The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest order. The Complete Poems is the only one-volume edition containing all of Emily Dickinson's verse.…