John Steinbeck explores these ideas in East of Eden (1952), which is part fiction and part personal history. It tells the story of two American families living in California between 1862 and 1918.…
The Citadel is greatly informed by Cronin's time as a doctor, and a number of situations in the book are taken directly from his own experiences. The main reason for the book's success was its shar…
In the second half of the nineteenth century, adventure stories set in strange countries were very popular with British readers. Anthony Hope was one of a group of writers who became well known for…
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for l…
This book brings together some of the best examples of the nineteenth, and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are ab…
Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of a lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely. He develops a plan to murder a greedy ol…
Cold Mountain is a novel of many levels. It combines a story of war and its effects on the men and women involved in it, a story of love between a soldier and the girl he left at home to wait for h…
Rumah Kaca adalah roman keempat dari Tetralogi Baru karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Novel ini memperlihatkan usaha kolonial memukul semua kegiatan kaum pergerakan dalam sebuah operasi pengarsipan y…
Jejak Langkah merupakan roman ketiga dari Roman Tetralogi Baru karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Salah satu Tetralogi pada fase pengorganisasian perlawanan. Diceritakan, tokoh Minke yang memobilisasi…
Arus Balik adalah sebuah epos sejarah karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer dalam proyek besar studi sejarah Nusantara sebelum ia ditahan di tahun 1965. Buku novel ini mungkin merupakan novel pertama dalam …