Ketika semua warga Perkampungan binatang ceria sibuk mengusulkan ide acara untuk musim semi, Kelinci Putih hanya diam mendengarkan. Sebenarnya ia memiliki ide yang bagus, tapi ia ragu mengemukakannya karena takut ditertawakan teman-temannya. Apakah akhirnya Kelinci Putih berani mengemukakan idenya yang bagus itu...?
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the striet utihuarism Thomas Gradigrind and the heartless factory qwner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding c…
The Evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper, his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver, while his next neighbours nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with…
This Dover edition, first published in 2010, is an unabridged republication of the text from "A Christmas Carol" (1843) and "The Chimes" (1844) both published by Chapman and Hall, London; "The Cricket on the Hearth" (1845) and "The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain" (1848) both published by Bradbury and Evans, London; "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854) and "The Holly-Tree" (1855) both publish…
The night was full of the sounds and movements of other nocturnal creatures Erik could only guess at. There were times when the noises in the dark sounded awfully close. Sometimes it seemed that whatever was making them had to be very big. But Erik wasn't afraid, and it wasn't apprehension that kept him awake. He'd never felt quite so alive, and he didn't want to miss anything on this first nig…
The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer, for living prayer is the characteristic of genuine spirituality. Yet prayer is also vocal and may therefore on occasions be written. Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations whi…
Yes, these were characteristics sounds; they brought to her recollection a countless variety of dreadful situastions and horrid scenes, which such buildings had witnessed, and such storms ushered inl and most heartily did she rejoice in the happier circumstances attending her entrance within walls so solemn! She had nothing to dread from midnight assassins or drunker gallants.
Tick-tock, tick-tock! Join Peppa and George on their very busy day, turning the clock hands as your read the story.
Based on the award-winning children's series, Peppa Pig, Peppa Pig: The Family computer is a funny and charming book, perfect for encouraging early readers taking their first steps in reading stories. Mummy Pig is working at home on the family computer but Peppa and George want to play 'Happy Mrs. Chicken'. Can Daddy Pig come to the rescue and fix the frozen computer? Read it yourself with Lady…