Literature & Fiction

While navigating their way through Mumbai's horrendous traffic, Gaur Gopal Das and his wealthy young friend, Harry, get talking, delving into concepts ranging from the human condition to finding one's purpose in life and the key to lasting happiness....

When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping....

This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure....

In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, ancient Rome, 19th-century San Francisco, eighth-century Baghdad, and beyond....

One day, 14-year-old Sophie finds two notes in her mailbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that beginning, she becomes obsessed with philosophical questions....

Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the '30s....

In Tamil: Ponniyin Selvan is a historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, written in Tamil. In five volumes, it tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I....

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors....

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it....

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....

Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished....

In the world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born....

India, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don’t give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the most illustrious sages of the time....

Mark Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us....

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight, truly outstanding companies which delivered 10 percent revenue growth over the last 10 years and 15 percent return on capital employed. These companies defeated 5000 other public listed companies to deliver high growth....

John Moffatt stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot....

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.... 

अंदलुशिया में रहनेवाले एक आम चरवाहे सैंतियागो की ये कहानी स्पेन से होते हुए मिस्र के रेगिस्तान जा पहुँचती है....

Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon flame and saw the Seven Kingdoms turned to ash....

Ponniyin Selvan is a historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, written in Tamil. In five volumes, it tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I....

Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....

In the seventh century the Cholas are vassals of the Pallavas. Parthiban conveys his dream of the Chola dynasty regaining its glory - which he believes is lost since they are no longer the independent rulers - to his young son Vikraman....

Perturabo - Meister der Belagerungskunst und Scharfrichter von Olympia. Lange Zeit hat er im Schatten seiner beliebteren Primarchenbrüder gelebt, frustriert durch die weltlichen und entwürdigenden Pflichten, die seiner Legion regelmäßig zufielen. Als Fulgrim ihm die Möglichkeit bietet, eine Expedition auf der Suche nach uraltem und vernichtendem Xenoswissen anzuführen, verbünden sich die Iron Warriors und die Emperor-ôs Children, um tief in das Herz des großen Sternwirbels vorzudringen, der Perturabos Träume heimsucht.

Der Hopfenhändler Grant Munro bittet Sherlock Holmes um Rat: er führt ein sehr glückliches Eheleben, doch seit kurzem scheint seine Frau ihm etwas zu verheimlichen. Dies korrespondiert mit der Tatsache, dass ein lange unbewohntes Haus in der Gegend neue Bewohner hat, eine alte Frau Munros Hilfsangebot für die neuen Nachbarn jedoch barsch ablehnte. Dennoch zeigt Mrs. Munro großes Interesse an dem Haus, besteht jedoch ihrem Mann gegenüber darauf, keinerlei Aussagen dazu machen zu müssen. Bis Munro ein grässlich entstelltes Gesicht an einem der Fenster des Hauses erblickt.

José Miguel Carrillo de Albornoz ha novelado con gran maestría la vida de su antepasada doña Isabel de Moctezuma, una mujer que nació princesa, fue dos veces emperatriz por sus matrimonios con Cuitlahuac y Cuauhtemoc, los dos sucesores de Moctezuma, y se convirtió en la madre del mestizaje hispano-mexicano. Tras la conquista tuvo una hija con el propio Cortés, a la que repudió, y seis hijos de sus matrimonios con Pedro Gallego de Andrade y Juan Cano de Saavedra. 

ガチ怪談とお約束ネタが満載！恐怖と笑いのミルフィーユ！ほんとうは怖い、ほんとうに怖い！BBゴロー第2弾！戦慄のアクセルとブレーキ！怖さと笑いのジェットコースター

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769) war ein deutscher Dichter und Moralphilosoph der Aufklärung und galt zu seinen Lebzeiten neben Christian Felix Weiße als meistgelesener deutscher Schriftsteller. Ob er uns Heutigen noch etwas zu sagen hat? Einige seiner meist kurzen Gedichte mögen etwas trivial wirken, enthalten auch Klischees, die vor allem manchen Hörerinnen nicht gefallen werden. Aber viele sind zeitlos weise, lebensklug, jedenfalls zum Nachdenken anregend, oft auch einfach vergnüglich und manchmal, was die Arbeit eines Autors anlangt, selbstironisch. Pauschal zu verachten sind sie gewiss nicht.

Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a little with Loretta Thistlebottom, could it? In another story, the country cabin where Mike spent so many idyllic summers with his grandmother ought to be the perfect place for his wife, Laurie, to recover from the nightmares of her childhood. But now that Mike and Laurie have arrived, what could be causing such an ominous feeling to come over both of them?

"Coffee and Caramel" is just another free-verse poetry book, in the "Timeless Adventures" series. It features 63 original romance, inspirational, and surreal poems, created to fill your imagination with sweet baked goodies and heartfelt words.FEAT DESC

文學界は2022年9月号の特集「声と文学」で、作家、アーティスト、批評家たちと声と身体と文学の関係について考えました。その特集のなかから、口述筆記で創作された4篇を特別に音声化。声と文学のたくらみを

Il tenente Costas viene mandato su un'isola greca per indagare sull'omicidio di un famoso critico d'arte. Tuttavia dovrà risolvere un'enigma etico molto più complesso del previsto per arrivare alla soluzione del caso.

Il caso o il destino mette nelle mani del giovane Rocket Boy una pistola davvero unica e speciale, dotata di un'IA che però minaccia di trasformare la vita stessa del ragazzo. Alla fine chi finirà per usare chi?

Una figlia adolescente che pone domande alla madre può rappresentare un bel problema, soprattutto se le domande - a sorpresa - sono di natura finanziaria, in questo fantastico racconto di uno dei massimi autori romeni di fantascienza, Cristian Teodorescu.

Silberrausch in Nevada. Zeit der Träume und der Gewalt. Eine Wagenladung Whiskey rollt zu den Minenstädten, in denen Reichtum gewonnen und verloren wird. Dort verspielen skrupellose Männer und wilde Frauen ihr Leben. Auf dem Weg durch die Wüste warten die Shoshone. Warum begegne ich immer wieder dem Tod? Warum folgen mir Kampf und Leid auf Schritt und Tritt? Ich bin doch nur ein Junge, der seinen Platz im Leben sucht.

Zehn meisterhafte Novellen weltbekannter Autoren in einer Hörbuch-Box! Inhalt: "Schachnovelle" (S. Zweig), "Das Erdbeben in Chile" (H. v. Kleist), "Pique Dame" (A. Puschkin), "Leutnant Gustl" (A. Schnitzler), "Der entwendete Brief" (E. A. Poe), "Ein Hungerkünstler" (F. Kafka), "Der Tod des Beamten" (A. Tschechow), "Der lustige Pfarrer von Azay-le-Rideau" (H. de Balzac), "Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?" (L. Tolstoi), "Der Leviathan" (J. Roth).

Questa è la storia di Evan, dalla sua infanzia trascorsa tra esperimenti sui cuccioli, passando per un lavoro come spia per una multinazionale biotecnologica, fino alla fama intergalattica della vecchiaia.

Keawe ist ein durchaus glücklicher Mensch, aber ein bisschen mehr Glück wäre natürlich auch nicht schlecht. Also schlägt er zu, als ihm eine besondere Flasche angeboten wird - eine Flasche, die sämtliche Wünsche erfüllt. Doch natürlich hat diese Flasche ihren Preis, und dieser Preis ist verdammt hoch, wie sich herausstellt. Stevensons Geschichte ist wunderbar einfach erzählt und spannend bis zum Schluss.