Jazuli, seorang pemuda dari Banjar, mencoba peruntungannya di Surabaya. Bermodal kekerasan hati, ia berhasil memiliki hotel mewah dan toko emas juga berlian yang cukup terkenal hingga ke luar negeri. Demi mencapai posisi puncak dan mempertahankan posisinya, Tuan Direktur rela menyingkirkan semua sahabat dan orang-orang terdekatnya. Sebaliknya Tuan Direktur justru mengambil orang-orang bermulut …
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comis triumph and firmly established Dickens as a'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightfulMrs. Nickleby, taking in the eccectric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the K…
Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. On its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contesred identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, O…
Poniem, seorang perempuan Jawa, yang ketika di perantauan harus rela hidup sebagai istri simpanan dari seorang tuan tanah di sebuah perkebunan di Deli dan Leman, seorang pemuda dari Minangkabau, yang penuh keyakinan dan optimis di tanah perantauan, loyal, setia, dan percaya kepada sanak familinya. Benih cinta tumbuh. Mereka kemudian menikah dan hidup baru dan hidup berumah tangga dengan perbed…
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Living with his sister and her husband, Pip is an orphan without any expectations. It is only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham and her adopted niece that he begins to hope for something better. When it is revealed that Piphas inherited a large sum of money from a mysterious benefactor on the…
" Who knows, he may grow up to be President some day, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly's assessment of Tom's character conveys the tone of Twain's wonderfully droll and idyllic picture of smalltown life in rural Missouri before the American Civil War. Living with his respectable but gullible aunt and dogged by his nemesis the villainous Inhun Joe, loveable rascal Tom embarks on a series…