Dari wayang kita tidak hanya mendapat serita seru, tetapi juga belajar tentang moral dan pemodelan kepribadian. Untuk memudahkan proses pemodelan tersebut, buku ini memakai pola enneagram dengan menampilkan sembilan watak dasar manusia, yang kemudian didekati dari sisi positif maupun negatifnya.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri and died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut. His parents, John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens, descendants of slave-holding Virginians, had been married in Kentucky and had made their way through Tennessee to Missouri. When Sam was four, his father, an impra…
This book consists of four parts, Prologue entiled The Storming of Seringapatam, The Story-First Period-Loss of the Diamond, Second Period-The Discovery of The Truth, and the Epilogue-The Finding of the Diamond.
Guy de Maupassant was born in Chateau de Miromesnil, Tourbille-sur-Arques, Seine-Inferiere, France, On August 5, 1850, and died in Paris on July 6, 1893. His maternal grandfather, Paul Le Poittevin, was Gustave Flaubert's godfather, and his mother, Laure, and his uncle, Alfred, had been childhood playmates of Flaubert and his sister. rnMaupassant grew up in his native Normandy, a rebellious stu…
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…
The authentic history with which now present the public is an instance of the great good that book is likely to do, and of the prevalence of example which have just observed; since it will appear that it was by keeping the excellent pattern of his sister's virtues before his eyes, that Mr Joseph Andrews was chiefly enabled to preserve his purity in the midst of such great temptations. I shall o…
This masterpiece was presumably written almost entirely toward the end of his first imprisonment, laid aside at his release, and finished during his second term in jail. Although it is basically autobiographical, through the grace of Bunyan's narrative art it transcends its own time and place. Set forth as the author's dream, the book relates the journey of the lonely pilgrim Cristian from the …
Miguel, the writer of this novel, was born in Alcala de Henares, a town near Madrid. He was baptized on October 9, 1547, and although the exact day of his birth is not known, it is believed that he was born on September 29, the day of San Miguel, whose name he bears. He died in Madrid on April 23,1616.rnHis unique skill in creating people of flesh and blood extends to the minor characters, whos…
James produced novels, stories, and literary criticism which have won ever-increasing critical acclaim. While his fiction deals almost exclusively with the wealthy and well born in English and expatriate American society, and has been further criticized for the labyrinthine complexity of its style, his superb craftsmanship sustains his reputation as a novelist's novelist.
This book begun in 1873 and worked on until 1883, appeared the year after his death. It is a bitter indictment of the Butler family in particular and of the hypocrisy and subtle sadism of the Victorian middle-class family in general. To control young Ernest Pontifex, his clergyman father uses fanatical harshness, his mother guileful sentimentality. They rationalize their lies and betrayals as …