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. …
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Pushkin, the great poet and storyteller, brings us the magic and adventure of 19th century Russia. The stories tell pf army life and romance. Bored, young army officers flight with each other. And young lovers meet in secret.
Colin Fenton and his wife run a computer software company, but only Colin knows that tje business is 10,000 pounds in debt. When a chance meeting in a pub leads him to an offer that will, he thinks quikly and easily solve alll his problems, he accept. But he loses the gamble and subsequently his identity, leaving his wife to try to prove whether or not he is officially dead.
Sir Simon de Canterville is ghost. He has lived in his house for hundreds of years. His job is to terrify the people who stay there. Then Mr. Otis, an American, buys the house. And the ghost is angry, he cannot frighten the Otis family.
On his first voyage, Gulliver finds himself in Liliput, a land where everybodu and everything is one twelfth his size. Then his travels take him to Brobdingnag, a land of giants. Through his experiences, both funny and frightening, he learns many things about people and customs in different cultures.
There is a war in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of British soldiers have died in the fighting there. This story is about one of them
Peter, a long distance lorry driver, gives a lift to a 16 years ole hitch hiker outside Bristol. As the boy confides in him, Peter discovers that John has run away from home after a violent row with his uncle. The police are making anationwide search for John. John's uncle has been found dead ang the police want to question the boy.
Presents a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew and an elusive white whale named Moby-Dick.Amazon Review Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the cultural…