A tale of two cities (easy classics)

With daily beheadings and famous buildings being burnt to the ground, Paris during the Revolution is not the safest place to be. When Dr Manette is released from prison and reunited with his daughter, everything seems to finally be getting better. But his daughter's fiancé is keeping some dangerous secrets that lead the family on a deadly adventure. How long can 'happy ever after' really l…

A christmas carol (easy classics)

Who can help a mean old man to love Christmas? How about a ghost? (…or three!) Scrooge’s heart is colder than snow, he’s richer than half the banks in England and meaner than, well, everyone. But when three seriously spooky ghosts turn up to take him on an adventure through time, he soon learns that being cold isn’t cool. Can he change his ways before it’s too late?

Persuasion

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are…

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Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9786232061217

Collation

32 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm

Series Title

Seri Menghargai Makanan

Call Number

F APR k

A Christmas Carol (English Classics)

I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody!

Pulang

Paris, Mei 1968. Ketika gerakan mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo, seorang eksil politik Indonesia, bertemu Vivienne Deveraux, mahasiswa yang ikut de- monstrasi melawan pemerintah Prancis. Pada saat yang sama, Dimas me- nerima kabar dari Jakarta: Hananto Prawiro, sahabatnya, ditangkap tentara dan dinyatakan tewas. Di tengah kesibukan mengelola Restoran Tanah Air di Paris, Dimas…

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah…

The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected…

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she has left behind. She is like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world. And in the stern Puritan community of her relatives, she soon feels caged as well, and lonely. In the meadows, the only place where s…

Tiada Ojek di Paris

Kumpulan esai Seno Gumira Ajidarma yang sebelumnya pernah diterbitkan dalam "Affair" (2004) dan "Kentut Kosmopolitan" (2008), ditambah beberapa tulisan di Djakarta! free-mag (hingga tahun 2013) yang belum pernah diterbitkan sebelumnya. -------------- “Kota bukanlah hutan beton, kota adalah kebun binatang manusia.” —Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo, 1969 Pernah membayangkan n…