Buku yang mengisahkan tentang mata-mata yang agak berbeda dari kisah-kisah sherlock kebanyakan yang bernuansa detektif. penerbitan buku ini terasa heroik karena bertepatan dengan perang dunia pertama dan dianggap sebagai alat propaganda untuk membangkitkan semangat dan moralitas pembaca inggris. Di dalam buku ini terdiri dari 12 judul, diantaranya: The empty house, the noorwood builder, the dan…
Pada hari pertama kuliah di Universitas Oslo, Albert mem-perhatikan seorang gadis di depan mesin kopi. Gadis itu, Eirin, balas memperhatikan Albert. Mereka pun saling jatuh cinta. Pertemuan berikutnya menghantarkan mereka ke Rumah Dongeng, rumah terpencil yang semakin mene-gaskan perasaan cinta di antara mereka. Tiga puluh tujuh tahun kemudian, ketika Eirin berada di sebuah kongres biologi d…
So there I was in a maximum-security prison, accused of theft, trespass and cruelty to animals... Me, public enemy number two! Framed for a jewel robbery, Nick Diamond finds himself sharing a prison cell with Johnny Powers, Public Enemy Number One. His only chance of escape is his older brother Tim, the world's worst private detective. But with Ma Powers and her gang waiting to greet the jai…
I'm Jake Cake and these are my adventures. They're all true, but I bet you don't believe me. After all, does your school have a dragon in the basement? Breathing real fire! Have you ever had a troll under your bed? I nearly got squashed! Or met a really Sneaky spook? BOO! Stuff that happens to me is UNBELIEVABLE!
On the day before the world is meant to end... Sanjeet dyes his hair pink. He's determined not to die without ever having really lived, so he's come up with the Doomsday List. Ten things he needs to do before the sky comes crashing down. Sola knows the world's not going anywhere. But, as Sanjeet's best friend, she's decided to help him out. As the seconds tick down to midnight, Sanj…
'I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible, dynamic, heart-rending story. Honest.' Tracy Beaker is ten and lives in the Dumping Ground, a children's home, with weedy Peter and stupid Justine. She'd love a real home one day, with a real family.
MEET AMELIA FANG A plucky little vampire who's just like you and me Everyone in Amelia Fang's class has to write their own stories - but for the first time ever, Amelia has run out of ideas! Amelia and her best friends head to the library for inspiration, but they discover that bookworms are chomping through everything! Can Amelia save the books before they're all gone forever?
to a great mind, nothing is little, remarked Holmes, sententionusly
the emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning
i must learn to be content with being happier than i deserve
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old
Honert people don't hide their deeds
We need never be ashamed of our tears
He seems to have declared war on the the king's english as well as on the english king
the temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession
work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear watson
Excellent! i cried. Elementary, said he
if you had killed watson, you would not have got out of this room alive
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…