women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting
1984 "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day.
nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change
"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master." George Orwell's influential, allegorical novel Animal Farm was published in 1945. In the novel, the overworked and mistreated animals on a far…
Sejak pertama kali diterbitkan pada 1865, Alice menjadi salah satu karakter yang paling dicintai anak-anak di dunia. Sosoknya terlihat begitu nyata dengan gambaran kisah di Negeri Ajaib (Wonderland) yang luar biasa. Karya Charles Lutwidge Dogson dengan nama samaran Lewis Carroll ini bermain dengan logika, memberikan popularitas kisah abadi pada orang dewasa maupun anak-anak. Alice telah berhasi…
"Hal yang kupelajari dari Ernest adalah tidak akan mubngkinn orang yang kamu cintai benar-benar pergi" - Paula Mclain, Penulis The Paris Wife Ernest Miller Hemingway adalah salah satu penulis terkemuka di abad 20. Dia memulai karirnya sebagai jurnalis sebelum sukses menjadi pengarang. Pria kelahiran Oak Park, Illinois, pada 21 Juli 1899 ini tak kalah menarik dengan karya-karyanya. Ia adalah s…
NARNiA BERPACU LIAR DEMI KEBEBASAN Narnia... tanah tempat para kuda bisa bicara... pengkhianatan mengintai... dan takdir menanti. Dalam perjalanan penuh tantangan, empat pelarian bertemu dan bergabung. Meski awalnya hanya berusaha membebaskan diri dari kehidupan yang kejam dan menekan, tak lama kemudian mereka mendapati diri mereka berada di tengah-tengah pertempuran dahsyat. Pertempur…
A tale of courage, justice, and relentless struggle, Homage to Catalonia is a reflection of a time when views on truth and freedom were tested by the flames of war. In the stillness of the night and amidst the heat of battle, George Orwell presents his personal experiences with unabashed honesty. In a world dominated by propaganda and rhetoric, Orwell delves into the Spanish Civil War with t…
The Little Prince is a novella written and illustrated by French aristocrat, writer, and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 and was published posthumously in France following liberation; Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the Vichy Regime. The story follows a young prince who v…
The very first of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, A Study in Scarlet reveals the early days of Holmes and Watson's friendship, and exactly how the former doctor became involved in a life of crime-solving. A body is found in a grimy house in south London, its face twisted by fear and horror, with the word 'RACHE scrawled on the wall in blood beside it yet the corpse Itself is completely unseat…
The Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka and first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, who have offer…
this , as i take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil
time is only a kind of space
take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!
nothing is so paintful to the human mind as a great and sudden change
Know your own happiness
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? no, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red
what's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings
A man has to be very carefule, not only of his fists, but of his words
Friendships eve the best of them, are frail things. one drifts apart.
.... how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
Brain, character, soul-only as one sees more of life does onr understand how distinct is each.
Sophie, seorang pelajar sekolah menengah berusia empat belas tahun. Suatu hari sepulang sekolah, dia mendapat sebuah surat misterius yang hanya berisikan satu perta-nyaan: "Siapa kamu?" Belum habis keheranannya, pada hari yang sama dia mendapat surat lain yang bertanya: "Dari manakah datangnya dunia?" Seakan tersentak dari rutinitas hidup sehari-hari, surat-surat itu membuat Sophie mulai …
THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY PERPUSTAKAAN TENGAH MALAM Di antara kehidupan dan kematian terdapat sebuah perpustakaan yang jumlah bukunya tak terhingga Tiap-tiap buku menyediakan satu kesempatan untuk mencoba kehidupan lain yang bisa dijalani sehingga kau bisa melihat apa yang terjadi kalau kau mengambil keputusan-keputusan berbeda... Akankah kau melakukan apa pun secara berbeda jika kau mendapat …
the true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid
our lives are one masked ball
IN THE EVENT OF MY UNTIMELY DEATH, PLEASE BURN THIS UNREAD. No, don't DO it! Prim's alive (though the dashing Roderick is, alas, no more). She's sixteen. She's trying to make sense of her mum's diaries, She is trying desperately to make Joel be friends with her again, but he's all friends with Karen (aka the devil) now, and Prim's found a boy called Robb-with-two-bees, and then there's Steve…