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Coming soon, Fiction, Novel, Short Story
21 Anmol Kahaniya-Premchand (H) by Premchand (Hardcover)
With Premchand’s versatile writing skill, the stories took a valuable space in indian literature. This book is an integration of 21 stories by Munshi Premchand, some of them are Ansuon ki holi, Namak ka Daroga, Shatranj ke Khiladi and many more.
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25 Anmol Kahaniya (Hindi) by Premchand (Hardcover)
Prem Chand ji was born on 31 July 1880 in a Kayastha family of Laghi village of Varanasi district, his father’s name was Munshi Ajaib Rai who was a postal clerk in Lamhi village and his mother’s name was Anandi Devi. His original name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava and he is also known as Nawab Rai and Munshi Premchand.The most celebrated writer of Hindi literature, Munshi Premchand penned stories that were tragic yet heart-warming, fantastic yet lauded for their realism. This is a covetable collection that every reader will cherish, featuring masterpieces.
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31 Sarvshreshth Kahaniya By Premchand (Hardcover)
With Premchand’s versatile writing skill, the stories took a valuable space in indian literature. This book is an integration of 31 stories by Munshi Premchand, some of them are Shatranj ke khiladi , Koshal and swarg ki devi many more.
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Fiction, Novel
A Christmas Carol( An Original Classic ) by Charles Dickens (H.B)
- Page : 90
- ISBN : 9789394885271
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1 cm
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice.“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”In the city of London, on the night of Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge—a bitter, cold-hearted old miser—refuses his nephew’s invitation for Christmas dinner and rudely turns away the gentlemen seeking donation for the poor. And as he comes to sit down alone in his cold, dark apartment, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his dead partner. Haggard and double-ironed, Marley is cursed to wander the earth. as Marley relates his unfortunate story, Scrooge is warned. and before Marley leaves, Scrooge is told that he would be haunted by Three Spirits.As the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come take Scrooge on respective journeys, will he learn the true meaning of the season? Will Ebenezer Scrooge be redeemed?One of the best-loved Yuletide tales by Dickens, a Christmas Carol is filled with compassion and humor. with larger than life characters, who continue to live outside the pages, this Ghost story of Christmas will make you laugh and cry in the same breath. Published more than two centuries ago, it continues to be adapted into films, stage operas and other media.
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Fiction, Novel
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (Hardback)
- Page : 279
- ISBN : 9789394885004
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm
Professor Liedenbrock, a man of incredible impatience and Axel, his unadventurous nephew, come across a coded note in an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga. as they try to decipher the code and reveal the message, the results are not quite meaningful.“I will get at the secret of this document andI will neither sleep nor eat until I have found it out.”My comment on this was a half-suppressed “Oh!”“Nor you either, Axel,” he added.As Axel discovers the secret, he decides to keep it to himself. But defeated by his hunger after two days, he reveals it to Liedenbrock. and what follows is a journey to the center of the Earth through Iceland, down a volcanic crater.Encountering grave dangers and bizarre phenomena, as they descend down the underground world, will they reach the center of the Earth?Adapted into numerous movies and television series, Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a brilliant science fiction adventure. Demonstrating Verne’s power of imagination, this masterpiece is one of his most successful works.
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Fiction, Novel
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Hardback)
- Page : 199
- ISBN : 9789394885035
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. ?When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin?s Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn?t quite like it. ?I don?t like it, papa,? she said. ?But then I dare say soldiers?even brave ones?don?t really like going into battle. ?The apple of her father?s eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a ?princess?, which she often pretends to be. But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her father?s death arrives, everything changes. Will Sara Crewe’s imagination help her cope up with the loss and hardships?One of the all-time children?s novels, Frances Hodgson Burnett?s A Little Princess is a remarkable story. It has been adapted for films, theatre, musicals, and television, and continues to remain popular more than a century after its publication.
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literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, Non-fiction
A Room of One’s Own [hardcover] Virginia Woolf
literary fiction, literature, Literature & Fiction, Non-fictionA Room of One’s Own [hardcover] Virginia Woolf
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Considered as one of the classics of twentieth century feminist literature, The Room of One’s Own is a book-length essay written by Virginia Woolf. Delineating the basic requirements of a woman to write, the author incorporates detailed revelations of the various power structures that stop a woman to excel and elucidate her creative capabilities. Illustrating the importance of women’s literacy through a fictional character named Judith Shakespeare, The Room of One’s Own encourages women to rise above patriarchal monotony and set a unique literary tradition of their own!
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Classic Fiction
A Tale Of a Tub By Jonathan Swift (Hardcover)
A tale of a tub, Jonathan Swift’s first major and his most masterly work. It presents a satire of religious excess. When it was written, politics and religion were so closely linked in England, that the religious and political aspects of the satire could not be separated. The story revolves around the exploits of three sons, Peter, Martin and Jack, representing the main threads of Christianity, viz. Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan, respectively. They receive a bequest from their father, of a coat each, with instructions that no alterations whatsoever may be made in the coats. After some time, the sons find that their coats have fallen out of current fashion. They begin to look for loopholes in their father will so that they may make the alterations they want. Each son finds his own means of getting around their father admonition, and they struggle with each other for power and dominance.
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Coming soon, Hindi Literature
Aankh Ki Kirkiri By Rabindranth Tagore (Hardcover)
रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर के सुप्रसिद्ध उपन्यास ‘चोखेर बालि’ का हिन्दी अनुवाद है – ‘आंख की किरकिरी’ । इस उपन्यास की गिनती रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर की – उत्कृष्ट रचनाओं में होती है। यद्यपि रवीन्द्रनाथ के लिखे ऐसे अनेक उपन्यास हैं जो ‘चोखेर बालि’ से अधिक विख्यात हैं, परंतु इस उपन्यास के पात्रों में जो विविधता और गहराई है, वह अन्य उपन्यासों के पात्रों में देखने को नहीं मिलती। उपन्यास का प्रत्येक पात्र पाठक को अंत तक बांधे रखता है। साथ ही संदेश देता है प्रेम, धैर्य एवं त्याग का ।
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Fiction, Novel
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (Hardback)
- Page : 188
- ISBN : 9789394885417
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm
The grey family is not well off to begin with. And now, Richard grey, the head of the household has lost all his savings in a dodgy investment. He now lies in his home, depressed. The family is on the brink of abject poverty. It is time for the women to take over. Richard‘s wife Alice tries to reduce the expenses, daughter Mary sells her water colours, but it is the youngest child of the family that really helps in its financial rebuilding. Agnes grey has decided to work as a governess. She arrives at bloomfield mansion for her first job, mildly excited from the sense of freedom and independence she feels. But she has no clue just how uppity the English gentry can be and how difficult it will be to manage the unruly, bordering on cruel, children of this house. Will Agnes remain determined to pull through, despite the ill treatment she receives? Or will she cave and fall in despair, just like her penniless father?.
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Classic Fiction, Fiction
Alexander The Great [hardcover] by Jacob Abbott
‘And what do you think of it all, Watson?’ asked Sherlock Holmes, leaning back in his chair.’It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business.”Dark enough and sinister enough.’-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’Best Classic Short Stories for Children brings together some of the most well-known and beloved stories by authors like O. Henry, Oscar Wilde and Saki, and extracts from children’s classics such as The Railway Children and Little Women. With a mix of genres including science fiction, mystery and ghost stories, and a host of popular characters such as Oliver Twist, Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre and Dracula, this is the perfect introduction to a range of classic literature. Classics for the New Decade is a new anthology series celebrating the most acclaimed and enduring works of literature.
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English Classics
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice Gerstenberg
When Alice spots a rabbit running frantically to a rabbit hole, she follows him to stumble into a strange world where animals talk, cat’s wield strange magic and cards walk around like humans. As if that is not enough, she must stand up to testify for new friends in a court against the wicked souled, Queen of Hearts.
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