Fiction
Showing 1–15 of 33 results
-
Classic Fiction, Fiction
1984 by George Orwell (Hardback)
- Page : 282
- ISBN : 978-8182479357
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
In England that has been shred to pieces by wars, civil conflict and revolutions, Winston Smith survives in a one-room apartment in the small province of Airstrip One. In a dictatorial society where freedom of individuality is suppressed and thoughts are monitored by the Thought Police, the Party makes all the rules, guided by its leader Big Brother. Tele screens, cameras and secret microphones in every home enable the Thought Police in identifying citizens that might compromise the Party’s command. Winston works under the Ministry of Truth as an editor and his job is to revolutionise history by rewriting records, altering photographs, managing the ‘unpersons’ and discarding original documents in a ‘memory hole’. Winston soon develops a keen interest in the real history of the world and starts writing a secret journal criticising the Party and Big Brother. He crosses paths with Julia, who shares his contempt towards the Party, and they begin their apparently secret love affair by meeting in blue-collar neighbourhoods that do not have tele screens. Believing that they are escaping the Thought Police’s radar, both join the Brotherhood, an underground society that intends to rage war against the Party but they are unaware that Big Brother is always watching. With plot twists that are breath-taking this book does not shy away from questioning the modern world which explains why throughout its publication history, the book has either been banned or challenged as subversive and claimed to be ideologically corrupting.
SKU: n/a -
Fiction, Novel
Anna Karenina (An Original Classic) by Leo Tolstoy (Hardback)
- Page : 1024
- ISBN : 978-8182478657
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 6.7 cm
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina was first published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A canvas exploring a diverse array of themes matrimony, politics, philosophy, altruism, adultery, religion and death, it is a masterpiece in realist fiction. Anna Karenina, a married aristocrat and socialite from St. Petersburg, falls in love with Count Vronsky, a suave military officer. Hemmed in by the laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, Anna is indecisive and anxious about leaving her husband and starting a new life with Vronsky. A social outcast, Anna is a voracious reader and detests fakery that she feels her husband epitomizes. Unfortunately, with her growing suspicion of Vronsky’ s fidelity, her affair brings her more misery than joy. Eventually, her paranoia leads her to taking her own life. ‘Flawless as a work of art’ is how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described Anna Karenina.
SKU: n/a -
Fiction
Best Russian Short Stories (Classic Edition) by Anton Chekhov (Hardcover)
- ISBN : 978-8182479807
- Page : 276
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
Life is a vexatious trap, when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape. One of the greatest Russian short story writers and an exemplary playwright, Anton Chekhov penned down some of the finest short stories and plays in literature. His works continue to be translated into various languages across the world. This edition brings together his early short stories along with the outstanding short fiction written in his later years. It includes the district doctor. The queen of spades, the cloak, the shades, the singal, the darling, the servant, hide and seek, her lover, and several other beautiful stories.
SKU: n/a -
Classic Fiction, Fiction
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Hardcover)
- Hardcover : 544 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182476134
- Item Weight : 811 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 4 cm
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.
SKU: n/a -
Classic Fiction, Fiction
Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov (Hardback)
- Page : 192
- ISBN : 978-8182479869
- Dimensions : 22 x 14 x 1.5 cm
This beautiful compilation of 23 selected stories of Anton Chekhov. It consists of a few of his renowned works like, Love, Lights, A Story without an End, A Living Chattel, The Doctor, Too Early, A Enquiry, Martyrs and The Lion and The Sun, A Joke, A Blunder etc. This original compilation of classic stories of Chekhov keeps the spirit of his writings alive.
SKU: n/a -
Classic Fiction, Fiction, Novel
Middlemarch (Original Classic Edition) by George Eliot (HB)
- Hardcover : 834 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182479258
- Item Weight : 1 kg 30 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 5.8 cm
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. George Eliot’s nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate. whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career, and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.
SKU: n/a -
Fiction, Novel
Popular Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky (H.B)
This beautiful compilation comprises of one of the best works of Fyodor Dostoevsky. It consists of the world famous classic short stories like An Honest Thiel; A Novel In Nine Letters; An Unpleasent Predicament; Another Man’s Wife; The Heavenly Christmas Tree: The Peasent Marey: The Crocodile; The Dream of Rediculous Man.
SKU: abhpss -
Fiction, Novel
Silas Marner ( An Original Classic) by George Eliot (H.B)
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. It is an outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, but notable for its strong realism and sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialization to community. Eliot combines symbolism with a historically precise setting to create a tale of love and hope.
SKU: abhsm -
Fiction, Novel
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Hardback)
- Page : 256
- ISBN : 978-8182478022
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
Satirical and nostalgic, Mark Twain’s epic masterpiece, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, brings out the inequities of adult reality from beneath the innocence of childhood. In the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, along the Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and half-brother Sid. As the novel begins, we catch him stealing from the jam jar and narrowly escaping being hit. But his life is full of adventurous episodes. What happens as he moves from one escapade to another—accompanying Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night where they witness a trio of grave robbers; falling in love with Becky Thatcher and being shunned; enjoying the new found freedom and then being struck by the idea of appearing at his own funeral; hunting for buried treasure in a haunted house with Huck and so on..? The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been widely adapted into feature films and television series. it is followed by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
SKU: n/a -
Classic Fiction, Fiction
The Bet and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov (Hardback)
- Page : 162
- ISBN : 978-8182476752
- Dimensions : 22 x 14 x 1.5 cm
This beautiful compilation of 13 selected stories of Anton Chekhov. It consists of a few of his renowned works like, The Bet, A Tedious story, The Fit, Misfortune, After The Theatre, The Wretched Boy, Enemies, A Living Calendar and Old Age and Expensive Lessons etc. This original compilation of classic stories of Chekhov keeps the spirit of his original writings alive.
SKU: n/a -
Fiction, Health & Wellbeing
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (H.B)
- Hardcover : 928 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182476622
- Item Weight : 1 kg 260 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 6.5 cm
“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of Western civilization’s greatest literary treasures. The power of Dostoevsky is testified by the fact that so many other great leaders and writers drew inspiration from his writing, and “The Brothers Karamazov” in particular. This includes people as varied as Einstein and Vonnegut, Tolstoy and Freud. Dostoevsky wrestles with timeless problems relating to human suffering, and, of course, God. This edition is the English translation out of the original Russian by Constance Garnett, originally published in 1912.
SKU: n/a -
Classic Fiction, Fiction, Novel
The Complete Stories (Classic Edition) by Franz Kafka (H.B)
- Hardcover : 490 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8190575096
- Item Weight : 723 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.5 cm
This volume contains all of Kafka’s shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka’s unique perception of the world.
SKU: n/a
