Little Book World Classic: The Mortal Immortal and Other Stories - Gramedia

“Oh expectation, what a

frightful thing art thou,

when kindled more by fear

than hope!”

Prolog:

July 16, 1833.—This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew?—certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed over his head. In comparison with him, I am a very young Immortal. Am I, then, immortal? This is a question which I have asked myself, by day and night, for now three hundred and three years, and yet cannot answer it. I detected a grey hair amidst my brown locks this very day—that surely signifies decay. Yet it may have remained concealed there for three hundred years—for some persons have become entirely white-headed before twenty years of age. I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so wearisome to me. Forever! Can it be? to live forever! I have heard of enchantments, in which the victims were plunged into a deep sleep, to wake, after a hundred years, as fresh as ever: I have heard of the Seven Sleepers—thus to be immortal would not be so burthen some: but, oh! the weight of never-ending time—the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours! How happy was the fabled Nourjahad!—But to my task.

Penulis: Mary Shelley

Penerbit: KPG, 2024

Kategori: Classic

ISBN: 9786231342287

SKU: BRD23370

Bahasa: English

Dimensi: 11.2 x 15.9 cm l Softcover

Tebal: 116 hlm | Bookpaper

Harga: 54.000