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Classic Fiction
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Hardback)
- Page : 178
- ISBN : 9789356520301
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
“It is good people who make good places.” Well-born and well-bred, the handsome horse named Black Beauty spends his early days with his mother at an English farm. Treated with affection and kindness, he is encouraged to be good always. “. . . I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best, wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”As Black Beauty grows up and changes hands, will he be able to endure the cruel masters, keeping in mind his mother’s lessons of goodness?Bringing to light the mistreatment of horses in England in the nineteenth-century, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was a galloping success. One of the bestselling books of all time, it has been adapted for films and theatre and has been an inspiration for several other works of literature.
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Classic Fiction, Fiction, Novel
Vikram and the Vampire by Sir Richard Francis Burton (H.B)
Translated from the original Sanskrit by the noted Victorian Orientalist, Sir Richard Burton, these ancient Indian folk tales influenced such later works as 1001 Arabian Nights and Boccaccio’s Decameron. As revealing today as they were in their own time, these stories will entertain and delight modern readers while illuminating the life and customs of classical India.
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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.
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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.
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