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Fiction, Novel
Hard Times : Original Un-Abridged Classic collector’s Edition (Hardback)
- Page : 310
- ISBN : 9789394885943
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.2 cm
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life. ”Thus begins Superintendent Mr. Gradgrind—a wealthy, retired merchant—addressing a group of young students at his school in the industrial town of Coketown, England. A rigid man of fact, rational self-interest and realities, he not only teaches his pupils according to the utilitarian principles, but also raises his children with the same philosophy. When they grow up, as their lives begin to turn chaotic, they reproach their father for their upbringing. Will Mr. Gradgrind realize his flaws and become a humble man?Satirizing the laissez-faire system, Dickens’ Hard Times lays bare the wide gap between the rich and the poor. Criticizing the materialistic world, this Victorian novel throws light on the value of emotions and the human heart. It has undergone several film and theatre adaptations.
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Heart of Darkness (Unabridged Classic Collector’s Edition) by Joseph Conrad (HB)
- Page : 91
- ISBN : 978-9394885370
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
“The mind of man is capable of anything.”Charles Marlow, an English seaman, narrates his journey up the River Congo in search of an ivory trader named Mr. Kurtz. As he sails into the heart of Africa, from the company’s outer station to the central and inner stations, he comes across scenes of brutality, torture, slavery and horror. What happens when Marlow finally meets Kurtz?A journey not only into the depths of the African jungles but also into the dark recesses of the human soul, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a critical exploration of the spine-chilling truths and hypocrisy of the European colonialism. The novella has undergone several adaptations across radio, theatre, television and motion pictures. It continues to remain one of Conrad’s outstanding works.
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Fiction, Novel
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (Hardback)
- Page : 174
- ISBN : 9789394885806
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.2 cm
Let’s enjoy the beautiful things we can see, My dear, and not think about those we cannot. A book “for children and those who love children”, Heidi (1881) is a story of an orphan girl who is sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps. The embittered grandfather who lives in seclusion, is known as ‘uncle ALP’, and deeply resents Heidi’s arrival. But soon, he grows fond of her. Lost in the idyllic world of snow-covered mountains, Heidi befriends Peter, the goatherd, his mother, Bridget, and his blind maternal grandmother. While all seems well in Heidi’s Wonderland, she is soon compelled to leave the comforts of the hills and go to Frankfurt to live with a differently-abled girl named Clara. Overcoming the initial difficulties, Heidi and Clara become friends. Amidst the grey streets of a new city, Heidi struggles to overcome her homesickness. If only she could return to the mountains. Will she ever meet her grandfather again? Written well over a century ago, Johanna Spyri’s Evergreen tale of a young girl’s coming of age, of her bravery and compassion, remains a classic.
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Hunted Down by Charles Dickens (Hardback)
- Page : 35
- ISBN : 9789394885387
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 0.5 cm
A unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective genre Charles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination, his detectives have had a profound effect on the development of crime fiction, and Dickens is now seen as the first major publicist for the police detective. Here, Peter Haining has assembled a fascinating selection of Dickens’s detective stories. Added to these are extracts from the novels in which the men of the law make their mark, including Mr. Nadgett from Martin Chuzzlewit, the first serious detective in an English novel, and Inspector Bucket from Bleak House.
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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.
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Jo’s Boys By Louisa May Alcott (Hardcover)
Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo’s boys – including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat – are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it is Jo and the warm-hearted March family who can comfort and guide the boys when they need it the most…
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Fiction, Novel
Kankal by Jaishankar Prasad (Hardback)
कंकाल भारतीय समाज के विभिन्न संस्थानों के भीतरी यथार्थ का उद्घाटन करता है। समाज की सतह पर दिखायी पड़ने वाले धर्माचार्यों, समाज-सेवकों, सेवा-संगठनों के द्वारा विधवा और बेबस स्त्रियों के शोषण का एक प्रकार से यह सांकेतिक दस्तावेज हैं आकस्मिकता और कौतूहल के साथ-साथ मानव मन के भीतरी पर्तों पर होने वाली हलचल इस उपन्यास को गहराई प्रदान करती है। हृदय परिवर्तन और सेवा भावना स्वतंत्रताकालीन मूल्यों से जुड़कर इस उपन्यास में संघर्ष और अनुकूलन को भी सामाजिक कल्याण की दृष्टि का माध्यम बना देते हैं।उपन्यास अपने समय के नेताओं और स्वयंसेवकों के चरित्रांकन के माध्यम से एक दोहरे चरित्रवाली जिस संस्कृति का संकेत करता और बनते हुए जिन मानव संबंधों पर घण्टी और मंगल के माध्यम से जो रोशनी फेंकता है वह आधुनिक यथार्थ की पृष्ठभूमि बन जाता है। सृजनात्मकता की इस सांकेतिक क्षमता के कारण यह उपन्यास यथार्थ के भीतर विद्यमान उन शक्तियों को भी अभिव्यक्त कर सका है जो मनुष्य की जय यात्रा पर विश्वास दिलाती है।
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Fiction, Novel
Kapal Kundala By Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Hardcover)
कपालकुंडला, बंकिमचन्द्र चट्टोपाध्याय द्वारा रचित बंगाली भाषा का एक प्रेम उपन्यास है। इसकी रचना १८६६ में हुई थी। इसमें ‘कपालकुण्डला’ नामक एक वनवासी कन्या की कहानी है जो सप्तग्राम के नवकुमार नामक एक लड़के से प्यार करने लगती है और फिर उससे विवाह कर लेती है। उपन्यास में दिखाया गया है कि वह वनवासी कन्या नगर के जीवन से तालमेल नहीं बैठा पाती है।
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Karmabhoomi By Munshi PremChand (Hardcover)
प्रेमचंद (प्रेमचन्द) के साहित्यिक जीवन का आरंभ (आरम्भ) 1901 से हो चुका था आरंभ (आरम्भ) में वे नवाब राय के नाम से उर्दू में लिखते थे। प्रेमचंद की पहली रचना के संबंध में रामविलास शर्मा लिखते हैं कि-“प्रेमचंद की पहली रचना, , जो अप्रकाशित ही रही, शायद उनका वह नाटक था जो उन्होंने अपने मामा जी के प्रेम और उस प्रेम के फलस्वरूप चमारों द्वारा उनकी पिटाई पर लिखा था। इसका जिक्र उन्होंने ‘पहली रचना’ नाम के अपने लेख में किया है।”उनका पहला उपलब्ध लेखन उर्दू उपन्यास ‘असरारे मआबिद’ है जो धारावाहिक रूप में प्रकाशित हुआ। इसका हिंदी रूपांतरण देवस्थान रहस्य नाम से हुआ। प्रेमचंद का दूसरा उपन्यास ‘हमखुर्मा व हमसवाब’ है जिसका हिंदी रूपांतरण ‘प्रेमा’ नाम से १९०७ में प्रकाशित हुआ। १९०८ ई. में उनका पहला कहानी संग्रह सोज़े-वतन प्रकाशित हुआ। देशभक्ति की भावना से ओतप्रोत इस संग्रह को अंग्रेज़ सरकार ने प्रतिबंधित कर दिया और इसकी सभी प्रतियाँ जब्त कर लीं और इसके लेखक नवाब राय को भविष्य में लेखन न करने की चेतावनी दी। इसके कारण उन्हें नाम बदलकर प्रेमचंद के नाम से लिखना पड़ा। उनका यह नाम दयानारायन निगम ने रखा था। ‘प्रेमचंद’ नाम से उनकी पहली कहानी बड़े घर की बेटी ज़माना पत्रिका के दिसम्बर १९१० के अंक में प्रकाशित हुई।
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Little Women : Original Un-Abridged Classic Collector’s Edition by Louisa May Alcott (Hardback)
Fiction, NovelLittle Women : Original Un-Abridged Classic Collector’s Edition by Louisa May Alcott (Hardback)
- Page : 467
- ISBN : 9789394885431
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.2 cm
Discover this beautiful and charming classic book behind the new major film. ‘Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another’Christmas won’t be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But although they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue, grapple with their vices, learn from their mistakes, nurse each other through sickness and disappointments, and get into all sorts of trouble.BACKSTORY: Learn all about the author’s life and how it inspired her famous story, and find out which of the March sisters you most resemble!
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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.
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Manjhali Didi By Sarat chandra Chattopadhyay (Hardcover)
शरतचन्द्र भारतीय वांग्मय के ऐसे अप्रतिम हस्ताक्षर हैं जो कालातीत और युग संधियों से परे हैं। उन्होंने जिस महान साहित्य की रचना की है उसने पीढ़ी-दर-पीढ़ी पाठकों को सम्मोहित और संचारित किया है। उनके अनेक उपन्यास भारत की लगभग हर भाषा में उपलब्ध हैं। उन्हें हिंदी में प्रस्तुत कर हम गौरवान्वित हैं। प्रस्तुत उपन्यास ‘मझली दीदी’ एक ऐसी स्नेहमयी नारी की कहानी है जो अपनी जेठानी के अनाथ भाई को अपने बेटे के समान प्यार करने लगती है। यहां तक कि उसे अपनी जेठानी और जेठ आदि के अत्याचारों से बचाने के लिए पति को छोड़ने पर तैयार हो जाती है। इस सशक्त रचना पर ‘चौखेर बाली’ के नाम बंगाली में फिल्म भी बन रही है जिसमें मझली दीदी की भूमिका हिंदी की प्रसिद्ध नायिका ऐश्वर्या राय निभा रही हैं।
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Mankind In The Making By H. G. Wells (Hardcover)
More than just a piece of fiction, this compelling treatise offers Wells’ insights into the challenges and opportunities of the 20th century. It contemplates the role of education, labor, and family in shaping the future, while scrutinizing the societal systems of his time. Wells calls for deliberate, conscious development of society, advocating for better education and improved social conditions to shape the human species’ future.It’s a powerful meditation on progress and the potential pathways for humanity, reflecting Wells’ enduring belief in our capacity to craft a better tomorrow.
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