Ini adalah kisah perjalanan spiritual di balik malapetaka yang mengguncang kemanusiaan. Kisah yang diminta rembulan kepada Tuhan. Kisah yang disaksikan bulan dan dia menginginkan Tuhan membelah dirinya sekali lagi sebagai keajaiban. Namun, bulan punya pendirian. Ini untuk terakhir kalinya. Selanjutnya, jika dia bersujud kepada Tuhan agar dibelah lagi, itu bukan untuk keajaibab, melainkan agar d…
Ini adalah sebuah cerita. Tentang seorang pemuda yang belajar mencari cinta. Tentang seorang pria yang belajar menjadi bapak dan suami yang baik. Tentang seorang ibu yang membesarkan mereka dengan penuh kasih. Dan tentang seorang bapak yang meninggalkan pesan dan berjanji selalu ada bersama mereka. Selamat membaca
Rio begitu terobsesi dengan mobil jip hijau yang menghuni garasi rumahnya. Setiap saat, dia berharap bersama mobil itu akan mampu memupus kerindtuannya kepada sosok perempuan bernama Indah. Tetapi, rasa sepi dan hampa malah makin menggigit.rnKuku mengemudi mobilnnya kencang-kencang. Memacari seorang pembunuh adalah pilihan yang tak pernah ada dalam kamusnya, apalagi pembunuh yang mencabut nyawa…
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.
tom looked up at the dark and silent building. Angela he said quiently to himself, where are you? A short distance away a man in a grey raincoat stood in a dark doorway. he was watching tom, watching every move he made.
I’m so pleased and excited to have Raj Lal’s response to re-reading Shanta on the blog. I’ve known Raj since she was on the MA in Writing at Warwick University, but met her again at a recent Writing West Midlands networking event. The Walter Dean Myers article had just come out and we were discussing the unfortunate fact that, even in 2014, hardly any children’s books in the UK and US…
The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a “red badge of courage,” to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts a…
Jenner Brenning, a young rural attorney, finds himself dumbfounded when proposing to a woman, Irene Marlowe, who has clear affections for him yet she refuses based upon her belief that she is insane. When asked further about this, the woman explains. Long ago when Irene was in her mother's womb, her parents lived in cabin in a more rustic area with their first born. The father was a typical woo…
Dana arrived in Alta California when it was a province of Mexico, and no longer Spanish colonial Las Californias. He gives descriptions of landing at each of the ports up and down the California coast as they existed then. The ports served (south to north) the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, Mission San Juan Capistrano, Pueblo de Los Angeles (and Mission San Gabriel Arcángel), Mission Santa Barb…