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....

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece....

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....

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

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther....

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

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women entered Bastar in 1980 and created a powerful movement....

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....

No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar...

"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel....

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages....

Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own....

Taken literally, stories, symbols and rituals of Hindu mythology have much to say about gender relationships. Taken symbolically, they reveal many more things....

The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? Find out....

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikāya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pāli Canon, the authorised scriptures of Theravada Buddhism....

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

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs....

Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of summer, the "ghost train" arrives, a silent funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refuges....

This study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Hosseini's The Kite Runner....

BBC radio productions of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, plus selected shorter fiction and bonus programmes exploring his life and work....

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story....

This is Leo Tolstoy's integration of the four biblical gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus which was inspired by his meticulous study of the original Greek versions of the Bible....

Do Kadam Aur Sahi is an excellent compilation of selected poems by the renowned Urdu poet Rahat Indoori. The compiler, Sachin Chaudhary, has named the collection as ‘selected pearls of the ocean’. The magic that flows from the pen of Rahat Indauri gives a different feeling....

A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation....

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, it is spread over more than 800 pages (depending on the translation and publisher), typically contained in two volumes.

Um clássico da literatura brasileira publicado no século XIX. Pertencente a fase indianista de José de Alencar, Iracema narra o romance proibido entre a nativa da tribo dos tabajaras e o português, Martim. O romance histórico-indianista é um dos maiores exemplos de prosa poética do cânon nacional e uma grande narrativa de fundação, trazendo mais do que apenas uma história de amor, mas também a busca pela identidade brasileira por meio de elementos mitológicos e épicos.

Sembra un mattino qualsiasi: spegni la sveglia, ti versi il caffè e ti prepari per affrontare la giornata. Ma, quando apri la porta d’ingresso, trovi una scatoletta di legno sul pianerottolo. Non sai chi l’abbia mandata. Non sai che cosa contenga. Apri. Dentro c’è soltanto un pezzo di filo. In tutto il mondo, ogni persona che abbia compiuto ventidue anni riceve la stessa scatola misteriosa. E, nel giro di un istante, tutto cambia per sempre: quel filo rappresenta il tuo destino. La sua misura, diversa per ciascuno, indica con precisione quanto tempo ti resta da vivere.

On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl; her ever-charming husband - an academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture - is nothing but supportive; and they've moved into a home in a wealthy neighborhood. But strange things have started happening. Alice finds herself hearing voices she can't explain and speaking with things that should not be talking back to her, all while her neighbours' passive aggression begins to morph into something far more threatening...

Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation on the experience and aftershocks of a sexual assault - written as a series of unflinching cantos - to poems of love, place and new beginnings, Feeney's voice is strong and clear, challenging and confessional, rooted in her west coast of Ireland heritage while speaking to and with women everywhere.

Le premier tome des Souvenirs d’enfance de Marcel Pagnol est un classique indémodable.
Par la grâce de son écriture, l’auteur nous transporte dans les collines provençales et nous fait partager son émerveillement d’enfant.

Inhalt: Londoner Vergnügungen und Ergötzlichkeiten charakterisiert amüsant die englische Mittelklasse, deren Feierabend- und Wochenendaktivitäten durch die Konstanz bzw. Regelmäßigkeit der Abläufe das mehr oder weniger ewig Gleiche in winzigen Variationen reflektiert. Der Strom richtet den Fokus auf die Wassersportbegeisterung der Londoner und zwar in aktiver wie passiver Weise. Zu einer Zeit als Die Morgenpostkutschen ein alternatives Beförderungsinstrument der Großstadt abbildeten, war es mit gewissen Unannehmlichkeiten verbunden sich einen Platz in selbigen zu sichern.

Nell’Afghanistan degli anni settanta il dodicenne Amir desidera con tutto se stesso vincere la gara di aquiloni che si tiene ogni anno a Kabul; ad assisterlo e a sostenere i suoi sforzi c’è Hassan, un amico caro quanto un fratello. Ma nel giorno in cui Amir riesce finalmente a realizzare il proprio sogno, Hassan è vittima di un episodio terribile che segna la conclusione dell’amicizia che li lega. A sconvolgere per sempre le esistenze dei due ragazzi arriva poi l’invasione russa, che costringe la famiglia di Amir a lasciare l’Afghanistan.

Raskolnikow befindet sich noch immer im Unklaren bezüglich vieler Ereignisse. So belastet ihn unter anderem das Verhältnis zu Swidrigajlow, der ihn näher kennenlernen möchte. Andererseits weiß er die Zuneigung Sonjas zu schätzen, wenngleich dies der einzige Lichtblick ist. Dunja erhält einen Brief, dass der vermeintliche Mörder die Tat gestanden habe. Kurz darauf erscheint Petrowitsch überraschend und bittet darum, mit Raskolnikow reden zu dürfen.

Artist Annie Shaw seems to have it all: a dream career, a devoted husband, and a whip-smart teenage daughter. But when her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie’s carefully curated life starts to unravel. She’s spent her adulthood trying to escape her difficult upbringing—and has tried her best to give her own daughter a completely different, idyllic childhood. But in the wake of her mother’s death, Annie’s obsessive-compulsive disorder comes roaring back, and this time, the disturbing fixations swirling around in Annie’s brain might actually be coming true.

Ein humorvoller und einfühlsamer Roman über Menschen auf der Suche nach dem kleinen und großen Glück – der Millionen-Bestseller aus Südkorea zum Wohlfühlen! In einer schmalen Gasse eines alten Stadtteils von Seoul befindet sich Frau Yeoms kleiner Gemischtwarenladen. Täglich kreuzen sich hier die Wege ganz unterschiedlicher Menschen. Der obdachlose Dok-go versucht sein Leben neu zu ordnen, und fängt als Nachtschichtarbeiter in dem Laden an. Schnell merkt er, dass er nicht der einzige ist, den Sorgen und Nöte umtreiben.

Luschin macht es noch immer zu schaffen, dass Dunja ihm eine Abfuhr erteilt hat. Er streitet sich mit seinem früheren Mündel Lebestjanikow, bei welchem er nun wohnt. Thema des Streits ist primär Sonja, die Lebestjanikow in eine Kommune locken möchte, um diese dort zu entwickeln. Luschin holt Sonja hinzu, weil er vorgeblich etwas Gutes für die Witwe Marmeladow tun möchte. Luschin überreicht Sonja zehn Rubel und möchte sich am Abend mit ihr treffen.

Raskolnikow möchte Swidrigajlow wegschicken, doch dieser wehrt sich und äußert zunächst unklare Aussagen. Er sei der Mann Dunjas verstorbener, ehemaliger Arbeitgeberin und ein früherer Falschspieler. Seine Frau habe ihn einst aus dem Gefängnis freigekauft. Nun möchte er Dunjas Hochzeit verhindern, da er selbst Gefühle für diese hegt. Auch möchte er sie mit 10.000 Rubel entschädigen und ihr zudem 3.000 Rubel übergeben, die seine Frau Dunja vermacht hatte.

Raskolnikow sorgt sich zunehmend um die bevorstehende Hochzeit seiner Schwester. Er unterstreicht in Anwesenheit der Mutter, dass Dunja die Verlobung mit Luschin auflösen muss. Weitere Gewissensbisse aufgrund der Morde werden spürbar, weshalb er Mutter und Schwester fortschickt, um allein zu sein. Rasumichin soll die beiden in ihr Hotel bringen. Dunja scheint ihm zu gefallen. Anschließend begleitet er den Arzt erneut zu Raskolnikow, um nach diesem zu sehen.

When three little girls—Anna, Bernie, and Elica—make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time before their bond of friendship gets severely tested.