World Literature

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

India, 3400 BCE. The ancient kingdom of Mithila is divided by corruption, resentment, and poverty. An abandoned baby is found in a field protected by a vulture from a pack of wolves....

Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an issue with love....

The author, Devdutt Pattanaik, introduces listeners to the varied aspects and representations of Shiva, and then sets about interpreting them....

Locked in the stories, symbols and rituals of Vishnu is the wisdom of the ancestors, transmitted over hundreds of years....

In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives, hers, and ours....

Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father....

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War....

This edition includes 36 Stories about Gratitude, Being There for Each Other, and Saying Goodbye....

The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. But then they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole....

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most ambitious collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding listeners further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others....

Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature....

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....

From victims to victims to victors, this collection of stories contains intricate details of 13 women who went on to leave their permanent mark on the face of the Mumbai Mafiosi....

Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Find out....

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature....

Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market....

For two decades Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered....

Readers will discover that Narnia is more than just a magical place, it is a story reflective of the world we live in, our human condition, and our need for a Savior....

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....

For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise....

For some fifty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself....

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....

This study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Zusak's The Book Thief....

Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral.

Жизнь, она всякие сюрпризы преподносит. Бывает и так, что, провожая в последний путь близкого человека, ты вдруг оказываешься переброшенным примерно на сотню лет назад, но в свою же собственную семью, где вдруг выясняется, что твой возможный предок оказался сожжён ударом молнии. Вот и не верь тут в совпадения, если и тебя перебросило тем же разрядом. Теперь тебе остаётся только жить и сделать всё, чтобы твоя семья не сгинула в горниле всяческих революций начала прошлого века.

В ресторанчике токкэби могут оказаться только те, у кого возникли какие-то проблемы в жизни. Ты потомственный врач, но сам страдаешь от коварного недуга? Ты тренируешься каждый день, чтобы завоевать золотую медаль, но получаешь всегда только серебряную? Ты мечтаешь стать президентом ученического совета школы, но тебя никогда не выбирают? Ты хочешь дружить с девочкой, которая давно тебе нравится, но она не обращает на тебя внимания? Ресторанчик токкэби распахнёт перед тобой свои двери. Там тебе предложат попробовать самые любимые вкусности, а взамен попросят лишь самую малость.

تتناول الرواية مسألة الغربة، وتأثيراتها على العرب في الخارج، فمنهم من يشعرون بالحنين الشديد إلى بلادهم ويريدون العودة ولا يريدون العودة في الوقت نفسه، بينما أولادهم وأحفادهم مصابون بضياع الهوية بين بلادهم الأصلية التي لم يعرفوها حقاً وبين البلاد التي يعيشون فيها ويعرفونها حق المعرفة.

La trayectoria poética de José Lezama Lima se inicia muy pronto, cuando apenas cuenta veintisiete años. En 1937 publicó un extenso poema, que había compuesto años atrás, y que lleva por título Muerte de Narciso. Se trata de una composición de juventud. Sin embargo, en ella ya aparecen los rasgos que definirán su obra posterior y el enfrentamiento entre el mundo de la vida y las visiones interiores del poeta. Muerte de Narciso, en su particular universo, expresa y contiene su propuesta estética.

Intimate and uncompromising, Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto’s debut collection Spilling the Light, is a luminous offering to their communities and a defiant declaration of their worth in a world hostile to their queer, disabled, and brown being.

New Mexico, 1935. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe is at her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan's home, Los Gallos, a house inhabited by a colorful range of artists, authors, and society figures, to attend the memorial service of the renowned writer D.H. Lawrence. Georgia has been commissioned to design the stained-glass windows for the small memorial chapel in Lawrence's honor. But when she checks to see how the light comes through the glass, another much more horrible sight awaits her: beloved Navajo potter Flora Namingha is dead, her face smashed in with a stone . . .

Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926-1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty.

يقول إحسان عبد القدوس في بداية هذا الكتاب:-

تتابع رواية "حدائقهنّ المعلقة" مجموعة من الأشخاص اختاروا لندن مغترَبًا أو مَهْجرًا، فتبعتهم الجذورُ، وقرَّبتهم المصالحُ، وأنضجتهم الصداقاتُ، وأغنتهم التجارب...

அயோத்திப்பெருமாள் - தமிழ் மரபில் இராமகதை எனும் இந்த ஒலிப் புத்தகம் தமிழ் மரபின் 1600 ஆண்டுகால இராமகதைத் தொடர்பை விரிவாக விளக்கும் ஆய்வு நூலாகும். ஆய்வு நூல்களுக்கான துல்லியத்திலிருந்து விலகாமல் அதே சமயம் விறுவிறுப்புக் குறையாமல் இந்தப் புத்தகம் அனைவரும் கேட்கும் வகையில் உருவாகியுள்ளது.

With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters, as the key to unlocking Didion. Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, her marriage to John Gregory Dunne as tortured as it was enduring. It was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the true making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz.

"ملك القطن" هي لوحة حية صادقة تمثل حالة فعلية كانت سائدة بين الملَّاك الجشعين والفلاحين المغبونين الذين يجاهدون جهادًا مريرًا لكي يستخلصوا ثمرة جهدهم من بين براثن هؤلاء المُلَّاك.

"الأيدي الناعمة".. مسرحية اجتماعية فلسفية كوميدية مهمة كتبها توفيق الحكيم عقب ثورة 1952 بعد فترة انقطاع طويلة عن التأليف المسرحي ليعيد فيها صياغة أفكاره إزاء التطورات الجديدة.

As escritoras June Hayward e Athena Liu se formaram em Yale e publicaram seus romances de estreia na mesma época. Tudo indicava que chegariam juntas ao estrelato, mas, pouco depois da graduação, Athena começou a colher louros literários, enquanto June recebeu apenas migalhas de reconhecimento. Quando Athena morre em um estranho incidente, June decide que chegou seu momento de brilhar. Por impulso, ela rouba o manuscrito do novo livro da amiga, uma obra experimental sobre a relevância dos trabalhadores chineses durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial.

Em Brinco de listas, Ana Maria Machado, uma de nossas mais importantes escritoras, brinca com as palavras de um jeito leve e divertido. O livro traz dez poemas que apresentam ao leitor a brincadeira com a linguagem. Versando sobre o mesmo tema, listas, a autora procura resgatar o hábito de se fazer listas para lembrar as obrigações do dia a dia por meio de situações surpreendentes e comparações incomuns, explorando em seus poemas a sonoridade, as rimas, repetições e a musicalidade.