Wuthering Heights

Set on the stormy moors of northern England, this classic novel is filled with the cruel and ecstatic love between the characters Heathcliff and Catherine. As they grow together as children and later as lovers, the conflicts of class and an all-consuming passion overwhelm the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. The all-star cast of performers includes Claire Bloom and James Mason as the doomed lo…

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is sentenced to death and rescued from the gallows by Quasimodo who defends her to the last. The su…

The Odyssey

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ISBN/ISSN

9781853260254

Collation

488p; bw; pbk

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Call Number

883.01 HOM o

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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ISBN/ISSN

9780099908807

Collation

137p; bw; pbk

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Call Number

823 HEM s

Pride and Prejudice (Terjemahan)

"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…

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. 'No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild, ' said H.L. Mencken. 'Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction.' Wh…

The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

With an Introduction by Richard Jenseth, St Lawrence University The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. It evokes the chaos and the dull clatter of war: the acrid smoke, the incessant rumours of coming battles, the filth and cold, the numbing monotony, the…

The War of The Worlds

“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”

The Snow Queen and Other Tales

“That power lies in her heart, because she is a sweet and innocent child!” English Classics: The Snow Queen and Other Tales English Classics is literature's collection with particular rooms for increase reader's interest in reading classics. This book including The Snow Queen and Other Tales as one of the collections. The Snow Queen and Othe Tales talked a lot of stories about fantasy and m…

A Little Princess

“It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”