Kahlil Gibran lahir di Beshari, Lebanon 1883. Pada usia 10 tahun ia berimigrasi ke Amerika bersama ibu dan kedua adik perempuannya. Sempat kembali ke tanah kelahirannya selama tiga tahun untuk memperdalam bahasa Arab, Kahlil Gibran menghabiskan masa remaja bersama seniman bohemian di Boston. Ia juga pernah tinggal di Paris selama setahun untuk berguru seni rupa pada beberapa seniman Peranacis. …
This story is set in medieval England, in a time when King Richard is imprisoned aboard and Norman noblemen are surpressing the Saxons, rnIvanhoe, the Disinterited Knight, returns to England from the Holy Land to win his love, the beautiful Lady Rowena, and fight for justice for the Saxon people. He is helped by an old Jews, Isaac of York, and his daughter, Rebecca, but the evil Norman Knight, …
It's about New York in 1922 Nick Carraway buys a house on Long Island. The house next door is owned by the fabulously rich and handsome Jay Gatsby. Nick's cousin, Daisy is young, beautiful and desperately unhappily intermediary between the reunited lovers, Daisy and Gatsby.
This is a Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and…
Can you guess the answers to these mysteries? Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigate the cases of rnThe Speckled Band, The Dancing Men and The Red, Headed League.
Novel ini berkisah tentang perempuan misterius bernama Athena, yang disampaikan oleh banyak orang yang mengenalnya dengan baik-atau nyaris tidak mengenalnya sama sekali. Seperti halnya Sang Alkemis, kisah Sang Penyihir dari Portobello ini memiliki kekuatan untuk mengubah sudut pandang para pembacanya mengenai cinta, gairah, suka cita dan pengorbanan.
The archeologist, Dr. John Farrow said he knew where to find the secret tomb of Queen Axtarte. He went to Egipt. He told his story to the newspapers. When Farrow mysteriously disappears, Chief Inspectur Salahadin suspect a gang of smugglers are involved. But he also wrried. He was read the words og Queen Axtarte's curse.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson help the police with the strange cases of: rnThe Blue Carbunkle. Two unusual clues for Holemes and Watson to follow, a hat and the goose.rnSilver Blaza. A Racehorse disappears before an important race. Holmes has to find the horse and solve a murder.rnThe Six Napoleons. Why is someone smashing statues of Napoleon? What are they looking for?
A delightful and romantic story set in 1922. Unhappy and restless in rain-soaked London, four very different women answer an advertisement in The Times Newspaper to rent a medieval castle for the month of April in Italy. There, amidst the sunshine and flowers, they discover happiness.
An adventure thriller set in Turkey. Tom Smith flies to Istambul to join his fiancee for a holiday. But Angela fails to meet him that evening as arranged and she is not at her apartment either. The next morning Tom hears some terrible news, Angela was kileed in a driving accident a week ago.