The 100 best novels: #42 - The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)

When 39-year-old John Buchan, recuperating from a duodenal ulcer, turned to writing (in a matter of weeks) a "shocker" or "di...

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The 100 best novels: #41 - The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)

The Good Soldier was conceived by Ford Madox Ford as the summation of his career as an admired and influential Edwardian novelist, his ...

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Baca dan Posting Bareng November 2014

Halo semuanya! Kita sudah tiba di bulan November, nih! Ada dua event yang seru menanti di bulan Desember. IRF alias Festival Pembaca Indones...

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The 100 best novels: #40 – Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)

Zuleika Dobson is a brilliant Edwardian satire on Oxford life by one of English literature's most glittering wits that now reads as som...

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The 100 best novels: #39 – The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells (1910)

HG Wells is often catalogued as a pioneer of science fiction (which he was) with bestselling books like The Invisible Man and The First M...

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[Event] Secret Santa 2014: List Peserta

Selamat sore! Seperti yang sudah disebutkan sebelumnya, periode pendaftaran event SS 2014 sudah resmi ditutup. Tiap Santa juga sudah...

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The 100 best novels: #38 – The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame(1908)

The Wind in the Willows , known to many readers through theatrical adaptations such as Toad of Toad Hall , belongs to a select group of Engl...

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The 100 best novels: #37 – Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe

Frederick Rolfe, who also styled himself "Baron Corvo" (and sometimes gave his full name as Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewi...

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The 100 best novels: #36 – The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)

There's an old joke (which only makes complete sense in Britain) that there are three, not one, manifestations of Henry James : James th...

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The 100 best novels: #35 – The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)

The Call of the Wild, a short adventure novel about a sled dog named Buck (a cross between a St Bernard and a Scotch collie) will be one of...

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The 100 best novels: #34 – Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)

Kim , Kipling's extraordinarily topical masterpiece, has one of the most brilliant openings in this series: "He sat, in defiance of...

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The 100 best novels: #33 – Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900)

Sister Carrie is one of several novels in this series that address the American dream, and it does so in a radical spirit of naturalism tha...

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[Event] Secret Santa 2014

Hi semuanya! 2014 sudah hampir berakhir. Rasanya kebanyakan dari kita sudah menunggu event akhir tahun BBI, yaitu Secret Santa. (Yaah...sela...

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The 100 best novels: #32 – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)

So far, on this list, with the possible exception of Alice in Wonderland (No 18 in this series) , Heart of Darkness is probably the title t...

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The 100 best novels: #31 – Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

At the far end of the 19th century, in the age of Jack the Ripper, and 80 years after Frankenstein ( No 8 in this series ), Dracula is a c...

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