Captain Arthur Morstan has vanished. Where is he, and does his disappearance have anything to do with the six pearls sent to his daughter Mary? Our crime-fighting sleuth decides to investigate
Terjadinya suatu skandal di Bohemia yang melibatkan bangsawan dengan seorang perempuan biasa. Awalnya, itu bukan suatu masalah yang harus dipermasalahkan dengan serius. Namun, saat ia akan menikah dengan bangsawan lainnya, perempuan itu mengancam akan mengacaukan pernikahan mereka. Ternyata, perempuan itu adalah seorang yang pernah dicintai oleh bangsawan tersebut.
Buku ini menceritakan tentang pengalaman Sherlock Holmes memecahkan kasus seorang kawan semasa kuliahnya dulu yaitu Reginald Musgrave, yang memiliki masalah ynga terjadi di Istana Hurlstone, karena kepala pelayan dipergoki mengendap-endap di dalam perpustakaan pribadi Musgrave pada malam buta yang sedang mencari dokumen ritual aneh milik keluarga Musgrave dan Musgrave naik pitam karena kelancan…
John Douglas, tewas tertembak di kastilnya, Manor House, Birlstone. Kastil? ya, karena rumah itu dikelilingi parit. Satu satunya jalan masuk hanya jembatan yang bisa dinaik turunkan. Penerangan dengan lilin dan lampu minyak. Tidak heran karena cerita ini bersetting sekitar tahun 1882. Asyik. Ini cerita jamannya para ksatria, namun ilmu forensik sudah mulai berkembang. Sherlock, dr.Watson dan pe…
Gilly sudah kembali ke rumah, tapi kali ini akan sedikit berbeda. Bagaimana Gilly menghabiskan hari-harinya di rumah selama pandemi?
Her crippled legs cured, Pollyanna takes her glad heart to cheer new friends in Boston before travelling to Europe with Aunt Polly and Dr chilton. But growing up brings sorrows as well as joys, and when she returns after six years, with Dr Chilton dead and Aunt Polly fallen on hard times, even Pollyanna has trouble maintaining her usual cheerful outlook.
The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the ‘Chaucerian’ humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding se…
The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett is one of the best-loved stories of all time. Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickl…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carr…
The gentle thoroughbred, Black Beauty, is raised with care and is treated well until a vicious groom injures him. The damaged horse is then sold to various masters at whose hands he experiences cruelty and neglect. After many unpleasant episodes, including one where he becomes a painfully overworked cab horse in London, Black Beauty finally canters towards a happy ending. Although Anna Sewell's…