7 buku mirip Orang Amerika yang Pendiam
Napoleon dari Notting Hill
A witty and surreal novel of the future.
In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London.
Tema bersama: Political Fiction, Politics and government, British and irish fiction
Sang Guru
The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842.
Told from the point of…
Tema bersama: Triangles, British, British and irish fiction
Potret Seorang Wanita
Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman.
Tema bersama: Triangles, Americans, Romance & Relationships
Jubah Hitam
The Black Robe is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens.
Tema bersama: British and irish fiction, Romance & Relationships
Orang yang Hendak Menjadi Raja
Rudyard Kipling is world famous for his children stories but here are collected two of his finest novellas. The first is inspired by a true story with a Kipling twist, the story of two British soldiers serving in India becoming rulers of a small isolated kingdom. The second story is the beautiful and heartbreaking story of a forbidden love that is doomed.
Tema bersama: British, British and irish fiction
Jauh dari Kerumunan yang Gila
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues,…
Tema bersama: Triangles, British and irish fiction
Darah adalah Pengembara
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of history. A stand-alone sequel to The Cold Six…
Tema bersama: Political Fiction, Politics and government