As the boat moved silently over the water, the thing at the end of the rope always felled823. Sometimes it came near the boat and sometimes it pulled away like something alive. As it moved through the water changes seemed to pass over the dead man's face. For the thing that felled at the end of the rope the body of a drones man.
'Your mother, Esther, was your disgrace and you are hers'rnThese words were Esther's earliest memory. But who was Esther's mother? What was the disgrace? And why did the ghost walk at chesney wold?
Pip seorang bocah yatim piatu miskin, yang sejak kecil diasuh oleh kakak perempuannya, mempunyai sebuah harapan besar, agar menjadi seorang gentleman, demi bisa meraih cinta seorang gadis cantik yang arogan bernama Estella. Meski begitu, perjuangan Pip untuk menarik simpati Estella tidaklah mudah, karena Estella tak pernah menganggap Pip ada.rnPip tumbuh dewasa, dan atas bantuan seorang penyand…
Kisah ini adalah salah satu dari dua novel Charles Dickens yang dikerjakan dengan latar belakang sejarah. Buku ini mula-mula diterbitkan pada tahun 1859. Isinya adalah kisah tentang Revolusi Prancis (1789). Peristiwa-peristiwa dalam kisah ini terjadi dalam dua kota, yakni London dan Paris dan kejadiannya adalah dari tahun 1757-1793.
Those who disparage Dickens point to his improvised plots with their indebtedness to the farce, melodrama, and spectacle of the nineteenth-century stage; to the characters with their idiosyncrasies and ludicrous exaggeration; to the pathos with its descent to sentimentality, even mawkishness. His defenders, while admitting the structural weaknesses of his early novels, maintain that his later w…
In his lifetime, Charles Dickens thrilled and entertained audiences by reading aloud extracts from his novels and tales of the supernatural. These two chilling short stories show Dickens to be a masterful writer of the mid nineteenth century ghost story.
Pip has lost both his parents. On a visit to their grave, he meets a run away convict who is to change Pip's life. Pip has one wish in life, to become a gentleman. His wish becomes an obsession after he falls in love with Estella. His poor uneducated background is changed when a mysterious person gives Pip enough money to make his dream come true.
Hard Times is both a tragic story of human oppression and a dazzling work of political satire.rnIt depicts Coketown, a typical red-brick industrial city of the north. In its schools and factories children and adults are caged and enslaved, with no personal freedomuntil their sporot is broken. Against this social backdrop where harsh regimes are enforced by the likes of Josiah Bounderby, the pom…
This book is a simplified novel designed for non-English speakers. The words and structure of the sentences were designed to help reader in learning English language while enjoying the stories, adventures, love stories, heroic stories, brutality, loyalty, etc which are entertaining.