Little Innocents, Alan Pryce-Jones

Judul/Title: Little Innocents

Penulis/Writer: Alan Priyce-Jones

Penerbit/Publisher: Oxford
Edisi/Edition: 1986
Halaman/Pages: 124
Dimensi/Dimension: 19,5x 13x 1cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperbacks
Bahasa/Language: Inggris
Kategori/Category: Dijual/For Sale

Harga/Price: Rp. 60.000,-
Call No.: 941.082/Jon/L/C.1
Status: Ada/Available


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In his introductin to this selection of short, confessional reminiscences of childhood, Alan Pryce-Jones says 'Frankly we have called the book Little Innocents because of the extraordinary sophistication of these children. It is not my place to censor, scarcely even to rebuke, but i cannot but say that it seems to be just as well that most of the children never met Elisha on their walks; and of some, that it is a singular sign of  the mercy of  Providence that their nurseries were not laid waste by fire and the sword.'
Wether it is  Lord Alfred Douglas's momment of glory in the Winchester steeplechase, the 'elvin days' of Sylvia Pankhurst, John Berjeman's fear of being 'put in the basket' at Marlborough, or Evelyn Waugh's precocious and sanctimonius piece agains betting, these childhood experience are as delightful as they are vividly recalled, and in providing a rare and fascinating glimpse into the narrato's private life, each reveals a side to their personality not always apparent and often quite unexpected.

The Realms of Gold, Margaret Drabble

Title: The  Realms of Gold

Writer: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Penguin Books
Edition: 1977
Pages: 357
Dimension: 18x 11x 2cm
Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Price: Rp. 
Call No.: 823/Dra/R/C.1
Status: Available

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Frances Wingate is a very

competent lady

A succsesfull archaeologist with four healthy

children, she is divorced and famous. Above all,

she is independent.

So what is she search for on her trips into

the distant past of the desert and into the nearer past of her family?

'Confident and stylish', commented the Observer,

and the spectator praised its' calmness and sanity'.

The Realm of Gold that increasingly rare comodity-a sensitive,

richly textured and deeply satisfying book.

Last Orders, Graham Swift

Tittle: Last Order

Writer: Graham Swift

Publisher: Picador
Edition: 1996

Pages: 296

Dimension: 18x 11x 1,8cm

Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale

Price: Rp. 
Call No.: 823/Swi/L/C.1

Status: Available

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Four man once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to her self, Jack's Widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of simple if increasingly  bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.

'His finest book to date; emotionally charge and technically superb...Last Orders is about how we live and how we die and our strunggle to make abidding connections between the two'

Times Literary Supplement

'A Triumph...A novel that unflincingly contemplates human  perishability, and that also pays unsentimental tribute to human resilience'

Sunday Times

'Triumpant...a ressonant work of art...a surpassing testament to swift's vibrant and powerfull gifts'

The Times

'A book to match his masterpiece Waterland...Last Orders confirms his reputation as one of the great contemporary chroniclers of landscape and memory'

Observer

'Inspired...His finest novel yet'

Guardian

'Tragic, comic and wonderfully compassionate'

Daily Mail

The Unbearable Lightness of Being,Milan Kundera

Tittle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Writer: Milan Kundera

Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: 1999
Pages: 311
Dimension: 17,5x 11x 2cm
Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale

Price: Rp. 87.000,-
Call No.: 823/Kun/U/C.1
Status: Available

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera addresses him self to the nature of twentieth-century 'being', offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophycal speculations. First published in 1984, Kundera's Masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and was at once hailed by critics as a contemporary classic.

'Read this book; here is a writer who really matters.'

Malcolm Bradbury

'There are novels that are tragic, or entertaining, and this one is both. There are very few that give a fresh perspective on existence, and force the reader to reassess his own life and antitudes.' Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times

'The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a work of the boldest mastery, originality and richness.' Vanity Fair

The New Oxford Guide to Writing, Thomas S. Kane

Title: The New Oxford Guide to Writing

Writer: Thomas S. Kane

Publisher: Oxford
Edition: 1988
Pages: 327
Dimension: 23,5x 15,5x 2cm
Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Price: Rp. 100.000,-

Call No.: 808.02/Kan/N/C.1

Status: Available

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“Guides to writing-some in print, other in software-continue to

Proliferate; the best written this year is The New Oxford Guide to writing.”

William Safire,

The New York Times Sunday Magazine

Many handbooks on writing offer reliableadvice on spesific aspects from punctuation to style. The New Guide Oxford to Writing, however, covers all aspects of writing, so that no matter where you find yourself in the writing process-from the daunting of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to the small but importan questions of punctuation-you will find what you need one handy volume.

  Highlighted by numerous examples of sucsessfull prose this stimulastiong volume covers the entire subject step-by-step, clearly and authoritatively. It shows:

• How to use common place books and journals to store ideas, brainstorming techniques, how to explore a potential topic systematically
• How to use drafts and revisions (and more revisions) to refine your ideas
• The best way to open and essay clearly and interestingly, how to lead the reader subtly, ways of using qualifications to express complexity without sacrificing impact
• How to organize ideas into a coherent paragraph, how to vary sentence structure and lenght for variety and emphases

In addition, it contains a useful appendix on puncuation, ranging from commas and periods to underlining and kapitalization.

Whether you write for business or for pleasure, wether you are a beginner or an experienced pro, The New Oxford Guide to Writing is an essential  addition to your reference library, providing abundant assistance and encouragement to wrie with more clarity, more color, and more force.

Thomas Kane was formerly Profesor of English at the Univercity of Connecticut at Waterbury. He is co-editor of The Short Story and The Raeder and Writing Prose, Sixth Edition, both with Leonard J. Peters.

Emma & Mommy Talk to God,Marianne Wiliamson

Title: Emma and Mommy Talk o God

Writer: Marianne williamson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition: 1996
Pages: 30
Dimension: 28x 21x 1cm
Cover: Hardcover
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Price: Rp. 
Call No.: .../Wil/E/C.1
Status: Available

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I hope that EMMA & MOMMY TALK TO GOD is a support for parents as well as chlidren. We have no more important job to do than remind the generations that follow us of the existence of God’s power, and of how, throuhg  prayer and forgiveness, we can experience His love in our daily lives. Such is the revolution of faith, which will, I believe, heal our hearts and heal this world.

Marianne Williamson

EMMA’S MOMMY

Empty World, John Christopher

Title: Empty World

Writer: John Christopher

Publisher: Puffin Books

Edition: 1981

Pages: 134

Dimension: 18x 11x 0,8cm

Cover: Softcover

Language: English

Category: For Sale

Price: Rp.

Call No.: 823/Chr/E/C.1

Status: Available

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Neil Miller is alone after the death of

His family in an accident. So, when

A virulent plague sweeps across the

World, dealing death to all it

Touches, Nailhas a double battle for

Survival: not just for the physical

Necessities of life, but with the subtle

Preasures  of fear and loneliness.

A chilling portrait of a world where a

nightmare has come true.

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers

Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Writer: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Qanita
Edition: 2007
Pages: 491
Dimension: 25x 13x 2cm
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Price: Rp. 
Call No.: 823/McC/H/C.1
Status: Available

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But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts

On a lonely hill

-William Sharp

John Singer yang bisu tuli. Spiros Antonapoulos yang gila. Mick Kelly, gadis pemimpi yang tak berkawan. Jake Blount sang sosialis. Biff Brannon, pemilik restoran yang merindukan anak, dan Benedict Copeland, dokter kulit hitam yang salah masa karena diskriminasi rasial yang masih terasa pekat.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter adalah kisah mereka, individu-individu misfit, manusia-manusia terpinggirkan yang mendapatkan perlakuan tak semena-mena dari masyarakatnya, yang harus pasrah menjalani hidup dengan keharusan menahankan kesepian.

Namun, ini juga kisah kita. Yang bersinggungan satu sama lain, merasa saling terkait tapi selalu harus menyerah pada kenyataan akan kesendirian yang kita rasakan. Karena senyatanya, jiwa-jiwa kita terjebak dalam keterpencilan moral, tak terhubung satu sama lain. Dan saat keterpencilan tak tertahankan, salahkah jika hidup bukan lagi jadi pilihan?

Usia Carson McCullers baru dua puluh tiga tahun ketika ia menerbitkan novel pertamanya ini. Sentuhannya yang halus pada masalah rasial, kelas sosial, agama, dan keluarga dalam novel ini langsung menobatkannya sebagai sensasi sastra pada masanya. Tak mengherankan jika penulis terkemuka Tennessee William menyebutnya sebagai “penulis prosa terbesar yang pernah dihasilkan di (Amerika) Selatan.”

“Begitu buku diletakkan, pembaca akan merasa diperkaya oleh sebuah kebenaran.”

-May Sarton

“Saya menemukan kekhidmatan dan keagungan jiwa dalam tulisannya, sesuatu yang tidak terlihat dalam penulisan prosa sejak Herman Melville.”

-Tennesee William

“Sangat luar biasa… McCullers membuat karakter tokoh-tokohnya menghantui ingatan pembaca.”

-The Nation

ANIMAL FARM, George Orwell

Tittle: Animal Farm

Writer: George Orwell

Publisher: Sumbu
Edition: 2001

Pages: 109

Dimension: 20x 13x 0,5cm

Cover: Paperbacks
Language: English
Category: For Sale

Price: Rp. 14.000,-
Call No.: 823/Orw/A/C.1

Status: Available

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Salah satu fabel politik paling baik

sepanjang masa…

Buku bagi setiap makhluk dan setiap orang,

Kecemerlangannya tak pudar

meski setelah 50 tahun.”

Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph

“Fabel karya Orwill ini

Merupakan sebuah satire yang luar biasa

Atas sisi gelap sejarah modern kita.”

Mail on Sunday

Dengan mengusir tuan manusianya,

Para binatang di pertanian Manor

Mendambakan sebuah kehidupan

Yang bebas dan sejahtera.

Namun ketika sekelompok

Elit binatang yang cerdas tapi kejam

Mengambil alih kendali, para

Binatang lain menyadari dengan

Penuh keputus-asaan bahwa

Mereka telah terjebak dalam kondisi

Yang sama dengan yang dulu mereka lawan.

Kisah yang menyedihkan tentang

Penghianatan atas idealisme

Oleh tirani dan korupsi ini

Sangatlah aktual dan relevan dengan

Kondisi kita saat ini, sebagaimana

Ketika kisah ini diterbitkan untuk pertama

Kalinya pada tahun 1945.