Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

Pidato kebudayaan Mochtar Lubis (1977) di Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) diterbitkan menjadi buku berjudul Manusia Indonesia. Karena gaya dan sikapnya yang lugas dalam mengupas terutama sifat-sifat negatif orang Indonesia, buku ini menimbulkan pendapat pro dan kontra, selain membangkitkan pemikiran kritis tentang manusia Indonesia. Sifat-sifat manusia Indonesia yang dimaksud ialah munafik, tidak mau bertanggungjawab, berperilaku feodal, percaya pada takhyul, berbakat seni, dan lemah karakternya. Stereotipe ini tentu saja tidak semuanya benar, namun tidak juga seluruhnya salah. Ketika reformasi sedang berkembang, sosok manusia Indonesia seperti dilukiskan di atas lebih kuat lagi aktualitas dan relevansinya. beberapa penyebabnya ialah pendidikan, sistem, dan struktur politik yang ikut mengentalkan sifat-sifat negatif tersebut. dari kedua sudut pandang tersebut, buku Manusia Indonesia menyajikan bahan dan permulaan kerangka yang berguna untuk membangun kembali manusia Indonesia yang sedang porak-poranda.

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.

When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in his laboratory, he sets in motion tragic forces beyond his control and faces losing everything he loves. No reader in the grip of Mary Shelley’s novel, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the countless adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), the teenaged Shelley managed to produce English Romanticism’s finest prose fiction. This edition reproduces her original 1818 text.

Pidato kebudayaan Mochtar Lubis (1977) di Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) diterbitkan menjadi buku berjudul Manusia Indonesia. Karena gaya dan sikapnya yang lugas dalam mengupas terutama sifat-sifat negatif orang Indonesia, buku ini menimbulkan pendapat pro dan kontra, selain membangkitkan pemikiran kritis tentang manusia Indonesia. Sifat-sifat manusia Indonesia yang dimaksud ialah munafik, tidak mau bertanggungjawab, berperilaku feodal, percaya pada takhyul, berbakat seni, dan lemah karakternya. Stereotipe ini tentu saja tidak semuanya benar, namun tidak juga seluruhnya salah. Ketika reformasi sedang berkembang, sosok manusia Indonesia seperti dilukiskan di atas lebih kuat lagi aktualitas dan relevansinya. beberapa penyebabnya ialah pendidikan, sistem, dan struktur politik yang ikut mengentalkan sifat-sifat negatif tersebut. dari kedua sudut pandang tersebut, buku Manusia Indonesia menyajikan bahan dan permulaan kerangka yang berguna untuk membangun kembali manusia Indonesia yang sedang porak-poranda.