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- ISBN-13 : 978-8182478459
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A compelling science fiction, the Time Machine is a first-hand account of a Time Traveler’s journey into the future. a pull of the lever and the machine sends him to the year 802,701, when humanity has split into two bizarre races?the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. Here, his machine is stolen and with the help of Weena, an Eloi he saved from drowning, the traveler is able to retrieve it. Whizzing thirty million years further into the future, he finds a slowly dying earth, where the bloated red sun sits motionless in the sky and the only sign of life is a black blob with tentacles. He returns to the Victorian time, overwhelmed, just three hours after he originally left.. Credited with inventing the time machine in this masterpiece, the provocative insight of H. G. Wells continues to enthrall the readers. The Time Machine has since been adapted into many feature films and television series and has inspired many more works of fiction.
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How To Play Billiards by William Broadfoot,W.J.Ford,Dudley (Hardcover)
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Uncle’s Dream and The Permanent Husband (Classic Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (H.B)
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- ISBN-13 : 978-8182475274
- Item Weight : 520 g
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This book is a compilation of two of the most celebrated novels of Fyodor namely, Uncle’s Dream and The Permanent Husband. Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky uncle’s drear was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a amazon sel hard labor camp. Uncle’s Dream is a whatsapp v humorous and yet scathing commentary on Russian provincial high-society. In The Permanent Husband, Alexei Ivanovich Velchaninov is a land owner who stays in Saint Petersburg for a trial about a piece of land. He receives a visit from Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, an old acquaintance who recently became a widower. Velchaninov had an affair with Trusotsky’s wife Natalia, and he realizes that he is the biological father of Liza, Trusotsky’s eight-year-old daughter. Velchaninov, who doesn’t want Liza to be raised by an alcoholic, brings Liza to a foster family,
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (H.B)
“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. Published in 1889, three men in a Boat is the most widely acclaimed novel by English author Jerome K. Jerome. Jerome wrote the novel after going on a boating trip along river Thames. Intended initially to serve as a tour guide, the novel, however, was soon overtaken by the comical elements and transformed into the humorous travelogue that is a classic today. Three friends, J. (Jerome), Harris and George, are apparent hypochondriacs in need of a vacation. A two-week long boating trip, they feel, would be good for their health. Narrated by “J.”, An embodiment of Jerome K. Jerome himself, the story chronicles in the form of ramblings and digressions, the hilarious adventures and mishaps of the three friends. The novella success led to a sequel, three men on the bummel (1900) and was adapted in several art-forms including film and theatre.”.
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