10 buku mirip Mayor Trompet dan Robert Saudaranya
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Tema bersama: Napoleonic wars, History
Paman Bernac
This is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tale of historical fiction set during the Napoleonic wars.
Tema bersama: Napoleonic wars, British and irish fiction, History
Sang Wali Kota Casterbridge
Like many of Hardy’s novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in the fictional county of Wessex in the mid 1800s. It begins with Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, drunk on rum, auctioning off his wife and baby daughter at a village fair. The next day, overcome with remorse, Henchard resolves to turn his life around. When we meet Henchard eighteen years later, temperance and hard work have…
Tema bersama: Wessex, British and irish fiction
Di Bawah Pohon Greenwood atau Paduan Suara Mellstock
Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels.
Tema bersama: Wessex, British and irish fiction, Historical Fiction
Penghuni Hutan
When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area - a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of…
Tema bersama: Wessex, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction
Kembali ke Tanah Asal
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.
Tema bersama: Wessex, Social life and customs, History
Pelancong Nonkomersial
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
Tema bersama: British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, History
Cerita Sederhana dari Bukit
Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of…
Tema bersama: Soldiers, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, History
Rasa Bangga dan Prasangka
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters,…
Tema bersama: Courtship, British and irish fiction, Historical Fiction, History
Melintasi Salju Rusia
Henty gives us two brothers as heroes, Frank and Julian Wyatt from Weymouth. Julian, through some fault of his own, is carried to France by smugglers and ends up in a French prison. Given the opportunity to fight for France in Germany, Julian agrees and is off to the invasion of Russia.
Brother Frank obtains a commission in the army in England, learns Russian, fights a duel, and is sent on…
Tema bersama: Napoleonic wars, Historical Fiction