The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year,the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno longs to be …
The Author Book Animal Farm By George Orwell and the author of 21 another books. Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism.
Suatu malam, Major, si babi tua bijaksana, mengumpulkan para binatang di peternakan untuk bercerita tentang mimpinya.Setelah sekian lama hidup dibawah tirani manusia, Major mendapat visi bahwa kelak sebuah pemberontakan akan dilakukan binatang terhadap manusia; menciptakan sebuah dunia dimana binatang akan berkuasa atas dirinya sendiri.
his is the unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior—to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is rega…
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classical novel a black man charged with a serious crime.Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Penyelidikan pun membawa mereka pada sebuah perkumpulan rahasia, gerakan bawah tanah beranggotakan kaum elite sastra Jerman, pencetus teori rasial dan para ilmuwan yang terinspirasi oleh teori baru evolusi dari Inggris.Awalnya, pemikiran sang pembunuh seolah tak tertembus, sikap dan jejak yang ditinggalkannya tak tersentuh oleh interpretasi psikoanalisis.Namun lambat laun, semakin jelas bahwa l…
Di sebuah kompleks pemukiman miskin di Williamsburg,Brooklyn,tumbuh sebatang pohon ailanthus yang kuat dan tahan cuaca.Beberapa orang menyebutnya pohon surga,satu - satunya pohon yang berjuang keras mencapai langit dan sanggup tumbuh subur di lahan sempit dan di antara semen.Francie Nolan adalah anak perempuan 11 tahun dari keluarga imigran di Brooklyn.Buku ini menceritakan perjalanan hidupnya …
Bagi Bella Swan, mencintai dan dicintai vampir bernama Edward adalah bagaikan khayalan dan mimpi buruk yang dirajut jadi satu kedalam kenyataan. Bukan itu saja, hubungannya yang sangat istimewa dengan Jacob Black werewolf, ternyata menyeret Bella ke pilihan - pilihan pelik yang membuat hati keduanya tercabik - cabik. Tapi konon cinta harus memilih, dan karenanya Bella harus memutuskan.