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The tigers of Chowghad were a man-eating Bengal tigress and her sub-adult cub, which for over a five-year period killed a reported 64 people in eastern Kumaon over an area spanning 1,500 square miles (3,900 square km). The tigress was attacking humans initially alone, but later she was assisted by her sub-adult cub. This is a story of a terrible man-eating tigress who had maximum number of preys on her name.

A well-known hunter, environment conservationist Jim Corbett was known throughout the world for killing man eating leopards and tigers. The story talks about his favorite hunting companion Robin, his faithful spaniel dog, who was trained to accompany Jim Corbett during hunts of man-eating tigers. Robin assisted Jim almost in all the major hunts in various ways. However in one incidence Robin himself was in trouble.

I would like to be remembered as someone who made people smile.' One of the great icons of our time, Khushwant Singh, 95, is a man of contradictions. An agnostic who's well-versed in the holy scriptures; a vocal champion of free speech who supported the Emergency; a 'dirty old man' who...

إِذَا رُمْتُ مِنْ لَيْلَى عَلَى البُعْدِ نَظْرَةً تُطَفِّي جَوىً بَيْنَ الحَشَا وَالأَضَالِعِ تَقُولُ نِسَاءُ الحَيِّ تَطْمَعُ أَنْ تَرَى مَحَاسِنَ لَيْلَى مُتْ بِدَاءِ المَطَامِعِ وَكَيْفَ تَرَى لَيْلَى بِعَيْنٍ تَرَى بِهَا سِوَاهَا وَمَا طَهَّرْتَهَا بِدُمُوعِ وَتَلْتَذُّ مِنْهَا بِالحَدِيثِ وَقَدْ جَرَى حَدِيثُ سِوَاهَا فِي خُرُوقَ المَسَامِعِ أُجِلُّكِ يَا لَيْلَى عَنِ العَيْنِ إِنَّمَا أَرَاكِ بِقَلْبٍ خَاشِعٍ لَكِ خَاضِعِ

Brought to you by Penguin. The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine...

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. He was also admired as a performer of his own work. Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes' masterful versions of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, includes those of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe as well as many others.

Inspired by myth, fairy tale, and folklore, number one New York Times best-selling author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice, and love.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis explores the expansiveness and complexity of universal virtues within the realm of the everyday in this thought-provoking new collection Though most of the virtues that interest Carl Dennis in Earthly Virtues have traditional names, they are provided with...

Within this essay, Orwell criticises the 'ugly and inaccurate' written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind'. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology.

I thought walking away from Kendrix would save us both. Instead, it shattered me. After attacking the man who destroyed my mother's life, I disappeared to protect the only family I had left. But even as I tried to rebuild myself from the wreckage, his love lingered like a ghost, pulling me back toward the one man I swore I could never have again. But no matter how far I ran, he saw me everywhere. As our secrets unravel and our scars resurface, we're forced to face the truth: love can't erase trauma, but can it survive it?

I can read a man before he even opens his mouth. I know which ones are starving to be understood, which ones hide their scars in designer suits, and which ones will hand me exactly what I need just for the privilege of feeling seen. I've been running this game long enough to turn conversations into currency and eye contact into opportunities. Every move I make is calculated. When I dance, my movements speak to their thoughts before I ever open my mouth. I tell their secrets with the arch of my back, answer their questions with the roll of my hips while I strip them bare mentally.

Bloomsday on Broadway celebrates June 16, 1904, the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses. Since 1981, hundreds of acclaimed actors have joined avid Joyceans, writers, critics, and scholars on stage at Symphony Space to read selections from the book that heralded the birth of modern literature.

في شمال القوقاز، عام 1839؛ إنه النهار الأخير من حياته القديمة، حينَ أيقظَته أمُّه، ووقفَت بجوار فراشه. حينذاك أدرك جمال الدِّين أن ما حدَث لا رجعةَ فيه، أحسَّ بالدفء ينبعث من جسد فاطمة، ودَّ لو يحتضِنها، أن يمسح قلقَه بلمستها. تغلغلت أصابعها بين خُصلات شَعره، اطمأنَّ إلى خشخشة أساورها، أحس بدفئها وحبها. استنشق رائحتها وظلَّ ساكناً في مَضجعه ملتفّاً بغطائه، تمنَّى لو يتوقَّف الزمن، أو يتأخر القدَر. لكنه أراد بالرغم من ذلك أن يكون ما يتوقَّعه منه العالَم بأَسْره؛ رجلاً بحق. لقد كان واعياً ومدركاً دوْرَه بالرغم من سِنِّه التي لم تتجاوز تسع سنوات. ولو كان الأمر بيده لَفضَّل في ذاك اليوم أن يبقى طفلاً ولا يفارق أمَّه أبداً. همسَت فاطمة في أُذن ولَدها: «عليك أن تكون قويّاً يا بُني، فخوراً بما تفعل، لتَكُن أنت سببَ فخري وعِزَّتي، كُن ولداً حقيقيّاً لأبيك. لن يَطول الأمر، وسترجع إليَّ عما قريب».

Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, Vandy’s public veneer can barely conceal her grief. When her beloved daughter Mallika suddenly disappears and her estranged childhood best friend Rani returns, stirring up long-buried secrets, Vandy’s carefully crafted life feels at risk.

Gary Pak has emerged as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers of our time. In this new collection, Pak expertly crafts a memorable cast of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians, amplifying our cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life today.

"This listen is for lovers of words, lovers of a great story, and lovers of a great narration. Hillary Huber does a fantastic job capturing this wonderful novel about twin girls, their love for each other, and their eventual rivalry." -- AudioFile Magazine An enchanting, comic love letter to...

New to a small town, Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the troubled Star. However, they quickly butt heads with their neighbor, Clementine, who disapproves of their lifestyle and is incensed when Star befriends her spirited horse, Comet. Haunted by past tragedy and unable to properly care for Comet, Clem nevertheless resents the bond Star soon shares with the horse.

American author, scholar, and satirist H.L. Mencken wrote The American Language in 1919, intending to defend American speech from prescriptivist critics. "America itself is unutterably vulgar. But vulgarity, after all, means no more than a yielding to natural impulses in the face of conventional inhibitions, and that yielding to natural impulses is at the heart of all healthy language-making."

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip.