Menyemai Anggrek Setan

by H.G. Wells, Noa Dhegaska (Translator), Charles Dickens

KISAH DARI PENGASUHKU: KAPTEN JAGAL DAN TAWAR-MENAWAR DENGAN IBLIS - Charles Dickens
MARKHEIM - Robert Louis Stevenson
CATATAN HARIAN MENDIANG HAKIM - Guy De Maupassant
KERTAS DINDING KUNING - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
MENYEMAI ANGGREK SETAN - H.G. Wells
LOLONGAN DARI NERAKA - H.P. Lovecraft
KURSI BERTUBUH - Edogawa Ranpo
HAWA DINGIN - H.P. Lovecraft
MAWAR TERAKHIR UNTUK EMILY - William Faulkner
JOHNNY SANG JURU PANIK DAN KITAB MIMPI-MIMPI - Sylvia Plath

250 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2018

About the author

Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with Margaret Sanger, and a ten-year relationship with the author Rebecca West, who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905), The Outline of History (1920), A Short History of the World (1922), The Shape of Things to Come (1933), and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932). One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917), it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.

He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946.

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Reviews

[haikal · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 | kumpulan cerita pendek dari para penulis klasik. beberapa ceritanya menggunakan bahasa yang mewah, perlu baca pelan-pelan untuk paham maknanya. paling suka sama markheim, catatan harian mendiang hakim, dan kursi bertubuh.

[cindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

10 cerpen dari 9 pengarang klasik dunia ternama yang temanya beraroma gothik, horor-horor syeeraaam. Waktu penulisan cerpen-cerpen ini merentang hampir seabad, dari 1861 oleh Dickens sampai Sylvia Plath di tahun 1958, sehingga meskipun semuanya ada unsur supranatural tetapi setting waktu yang berbeda membuat nuansa ceritanya terasa beda.

Yg klasik banget, ku suka kisah si hakim dari Guy de Maupassant (bias sih, aku kan selalu suka karya Maupassant), juga kisah anggrek aneh yang jadi judul antologi ini karya H. G. Wells. Dari negeri jepun, kusuka (walau ud pernah baca) cerpen Edogawa Ranpo tentang sebuah kursi dan pengrajinnya pasti membuat kaget pembaca seperti juga si wanita pemilik kursi itu. Lalu ada pula karya Faulkner yang kelam dan sepi tentang seorang wanita dan kastil tuanya. Hyiii....

Antologi yang bagus, sayangnya aku kan gak terlalu suka cerita menakutkan (-_-)

[Rita Nurday · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sudah baca reviewnya bentar ya 😅😅
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[Cep Subhan KM · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorites are Markheim and Kursi Bertubuh.

[Nindya Chitra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suka sekaliiii. Cuma cerpen terakhirnya yang bikin mumet saking tinggi bahasanya. Yang lainnya nyaman dibaca dan seru.