8 buku mirip Kehidupan Samuel Johnson
Kehidupan Samuel Johnson
Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.
Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the…
Tema bersama: Johnson, English Authors, Biography & Memoir
Sang Penyihir
Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century masterSet in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley. At the start of this compulsive gothic horror story, Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look…
Tema bersama: English Authors, English literature, Biography & Memoir
Sang Terdakwa
Covering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. With chapter titles ranging from “The Miser and His Friends” to “The Red Reactionary,” from “The Separatist and Sacred Things” to “The New Theologian” and “The Romantic in the Rain,” this volume…
Tema bersama: English Authors, English literature
Maria; atau, Hak-hak Wanita
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work.
Wollstonecraft’s philosophical and gothic novel…
Tema bersama: English Authors, English literature, Biography & Memoir
Si Pengembara Romawi
The journey of a learned young man living with Romanies.
Tema bersama: English Authors, Biography & Memoir
Karya-Karya Puisi John Dryden
Oxford edition.The facsimiles are reproductions of title-pages of earlier editions.
Tema bersama: English Authors, English literature, Biography & Memoir
Bid'ah
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George…
Tema bersama: English Authors, English literature
Wales Liar
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862.
Tema bersama: English Authors, Biography & Memoir