I wonder if this love of books is hereditary. I sometimes think that might be why I'm still coming so often to the shop on my days off from work
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III remains …
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hyst…
Di balik pergantian musim, seekor anak kucing. yang baru saja diselamatkan dari tempat sampah, mengajarkan seorang lelaki bagaimana menjadi ayah yang baik untuk bayinya sendiri. Kita juga akan bertualang ke pulau kucing, bertemu dengan sekelompok kucing liar yang mengajarkan seorang anak laki-laki untuk tidak mengganggu alam. Lalu, ada seekor kucing tua yang merencanakan perjalanan ke dunia …
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll p…
Gabriel de Leon has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost.