Zakaria merupakan seorang haji kaya/ Ia memiliki anak tunggal bernama Suria. Sejak kecil Suria hidup cukup dan dimanja ayahnya. Dengan didikan itu, ia justru menjadi anak yang pongah dan sombong. Haji Hasbullah merupakan teman akrab Haji Zakaria. Ia memiliki anak gadis benama Zubaedah. Atas permintaan Zakaria, Zubaedah dinikahkan dengan Suria. Pernikahan tanpa cinta itu justru membawa mala pet…
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting i…
ading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, …
Mrs Woolf first became known to the wider reading public with the publication of A Room of One's Own in 1929. But the year before that, her novel To the Lighthouse had been awarded the Northcliffe and Femina Vie Heureuse prizes. It has since been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Virginia Woolf's technique was all her own. In the words of Naomi Royd…
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society.