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English Classics, Novel
Trailing Tales: Good, Bad & Mixed by Vidya Mani (HARDCOVER)
The muses sits gently on Vidya Mani in her new book where you find a ground swell of memories flowing through as the author unpeels the layers of emotions, one by one to the core, Flitting between the shadows and the soul are more than ideas that take you on a roller-coaster ride through the hidden veil and on to the ultimate truth. This collection of stories is well-worth your time.
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Fiction, Novel
Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells (Hardback)
- Page : 202
- ISBN : 9789394885172
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm
H.G. Wells was a novelist, educator, historian, and journalist dubbed the “father of science fiction.” Numerous adaptations of his works have occurred, and they have served as the basis for multiple literary and theatrical productions. Twelve short stories and a dream transcript are included in this collection. In addition, this collection includes the following: Filmer, The Magic Shop, The Valley of Spiders, The Truth About Pyecraft, Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland, The Inexperienced Ghost, Jimmy Goggles the God, The New Accelerator, Mr Ledbetter’s Vacation, The Stolen Body, Mr Brishner’s Treasure, Miss Winchelsea’s Heart and A Dream of Armageddon.
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Fiction, Novel
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea : Original Unabridged Classic Collector’s Edition by Jules Verne (Hardback)
Fiction, NovelTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea : Original Unabridged Classic Collector’s Edition by Jules Verne (Hardback)
- Page : 462
- ISBN : 9789394885998
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3 cm
The greatest underwater adventure ever written. French naturalist Professor Aronnax joins a task force to rid the seas of a monster that is terrorizing shipping lanes. But the Professor’s mission takes an unexpected turn when he falls overboard and is rescued by the ‘monster’ itself—the Nautilus, a man-made submarine built by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first Aronnax is thrilled to see the unimaginable wonders of the oceans—the reef of coral that formed a cemetery, the floes of the South Pole, the huge oyster and its priceless pearl, the lost land of Atlantis—but soon he realizes that his host’s motives may be more sinister than he had thought. This triumphant work of the imagination shows the limitless possibilities of science and the dark depths of the human mind.
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Fiction, Novel
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (Hardback)
- Page : 716
- ISBN : 9789394885080
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 4.6 cm
Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.
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Fiction, Novel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Unabridged Classic Edition) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (HB)
- Page : 531
- ISBN : 978-9394885110
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm
“And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honor and justice by dollars and cents.” Arthur Shelby, a Kentucky farmer, is heavily in debt. While on the verge of losing his farm and everything else that he owns, Shelby decides to cope up with the financial crisis by selling two of his slaves—the middle-aged uncle Tom whose faith is unwavering and, the son of Mrs. Emily shelby’s maid Eliza, harry—to a gruff slave trader named Haley for money. But the Shelby family shares a warm and affectionate relationship with their slaves. What happens when Eliza, who was promised by the virtuous Mrs. Emily Shelby that her son would never be sold, comes to know of the arrangement? A heart-wrenching tale giving insights into the lives of the African American slaves in the pre-Civil war America, Harriet beecher stowe’s uncle Tom’s cabin highlights the evils of slavery. At once fierce and stirring, the book is credited to have fanned the flames of the abolitionist cause. The bestselling novel and the second bestselling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, uncle Tom’s cabin continues to remain a significant part of American literature.
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Vardaan by Munshi Premchand (Hardcover)
‘वरदान’ दो प्रेमियों की दुखांत कथा है। ऐसे दो प्रेमी जो बचपन में साथ-साथ खेले, जिन्होंने तरुणाई में भावी जीवन की सरल और कोमल कल्पनाएं संजोईं, जिनके सुन्दर घर के निर्माण के अपने सपने थे और भावी जीवन के निर्धारण के लिए अपनी विचारधारा थी। किन्तु उनकी कल्पनाओं का महल शीघ्र ढह गया । विश्व के महान कथा- शिल्पी प्रेमचन्द के उपन्यास वरदान में सुदामा अष्टभुजा देवी से एक ऐसे सपूत का वरदान मांगती है, जो जाति की भलाई में संलग्न हो। इसी ताने-बाने पर प्रेमचन्द की सशक्त कलम से बुना कथानक जीवन की स्थितियों की बारीकी से पड़ताल करता है। सुदामा का पुत्र प्रताप एक ऐसा पात्र है जो दीन-दुखियों, रोगियों, दलितों की निस्वार्थ सहायता करता है।
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Fiction, Novel
White Fang by Jack London (Hardcover)
White Fang, who is appropriately named thus, is the only pup in the litter of the cunning she-wolf who survives to grow into a ferocious and mean wolf-dog. But does he remain wild and free for the rest of his life? How does he fall into the hands of his bitter enemy, man? How does he come into the good books of his saviour, Scott? How does white Fang repay the man he grows to love and look up to? A thrilling tale of how the wild wolf was domesticated and tamed by man through firmness and love and grew to be a part of a happy, contented human family.
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Coming soon, Fiction
Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Hardcover)
Coming soon, FictionWives and Daughters: An Everyday Story By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Hardcover)
Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl as her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. The story revolves around Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
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Coming soon, Fiction, Novel
Wuthering Heights + Pride & Prejudice (Set of 2 Books) By E. Bronte, Jane Austen (Hardcover)
Coming soon, Fiction, NovelWuthering Heights + Pride & Prejudice (Set of 2 Books) By E. Bronte, Jane Austen (Hardcover)
Wuthering HeightsIn this epic story of love, envy, betrayal and revenge, Heathcliff and Catherine come together in a romance that destroys them and those around them. Set in the lonely and bleak Yorkshire moors, this classic tale of thwarted passion begins when the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, a Mr Lockwood, is forced to seek shelter for a night at Wuthering Heights. As the night passes, Lockwood learns of the tumultuous past of Wuthering Heights and of those connected with it.Pride & PrejudiceWhen Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts like an insufferable snob, but she also overhears him rejecting the very idea of asking her for a dance! As life pits them against each other again and again, Darcy begins to fall for Elizabeth’s wit and intelligence and Elizabeth begins to question her feelings about Darcy. When Darcy saves her youngest sister, Lydia, from a scandal, Elizabeth starts to wonder if her pride has prejudiced her opinion of Darcy. Through this tale about two warring hearts, Austen weaves a witty satire about life in eighteenth century England. And though it was published more than two centuries ago, Pride and Prejudice continues to enthrall readers to this very day.
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