Features one of Shakespeares most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. Here, the text may well seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly, in performance, it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock, though vanquished in the law-court, often triumphs in the theatre Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. T…
Set against the backdrop of Japanese colonization in Korea, young Kim Sunja’s life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock. The daughter of a humble boardinghouse owner in a small fishing village near Busan, Sunja faces a future filled with uncertainty—until fate intervenes. A compassionate young minister, Baek Isak, offers her marriage and a new life in Japan. But…
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Negeri para bedebah, negerinya para musang berbulu domba, negerinya pencuri berdasi. Tempat dimana kehidupan terasa jauh lebih fiksi dari pada novel fiksi itu sendiri. Dimana realita terasa jauh lebih nyata. Sebab di negeri para bedebah segala hal bisa terjadi selama melibatkan materi dan kedudukan. Manusia bisa berubah menjadi musang paling manipulatif selama itu demi kekayaan. Namun di negeri…
“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.” A summer evening’s ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine room, and a runaway imagination—fired by philosophical discus…
Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party —the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice , directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh—with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts t…