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A classic from Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay.

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, is considered one of George Eliot's most autobiographical works. Having formed a complex bond with her own family, George Eliot, now known to the public as Mary Ann Evans, depicts the loving yet volatile relationship between the Tulliver siblings and their doting father. Spanning over a period of 10 years, The Mill on the Floss follows the coming of age of the beautiful and idealistic Maggie.

The Good Soldier Švejk, written shortly after the First World War, is one of the great antiwar satires - and one of the funniest books of the 20th (or any) century. In creating his eponymous hero, Jaroslav Hašek produced an unforgettable character who charms and infuriates and bamboozles his...

शिवाजी सावंत लिखित मृत्युंजय भाग ७ शोण मध्ये चंपानगरीशी निगडित असलेलं कर्ण आणि शोणाच नातं खूप छान रंगवलं आहे...

शिवाजी सावंत लिखित मृत्युंजय भाग ४ मध्ये दुर्योधनाचं व्यक्तिमत्व, त्याचे गुण - अवगुण व त्याने कर्णाला दिलेला...

শ্রীকান্ত, শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের এক অনবদ্য উপন্যাস এবং খুবই জনপ্রিয় উপন্যাস। এটি একটি আত্মজীবনীমূলক...

Join MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of four original James Bond stories by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes From Russia, With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, and For Your Eyes Only...

Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.

Kalidas incorporates a noble culture in Kumarsambhav by depicting things that are sweet and beautiful. The poems in Kumarsambhav (Sanskrit Classics) provide us a vibrant picture of good and meaningful life a person could and should lead as proposed by our learned ancestor.

A new version of this classic starring Stephen Fry. A chance encounter leads to flower girl Eliza Dootlittle undergoing a life changing transformation.

Here is the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent - led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian - into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood.

The brilliance of this story is in how a normal bureaucrat, a judge in this case, has a small accident that winds up gradually taking his life. As he deals with this incident, with hope at first and then despair, he comes to terms with his family, his life, and the mediocrities that we all suffer with, except for the exceptional few. This story rings a particularly poignant note for those in early middle age facing the next part of their lives. This story is considered Tolstoy's best.

While Blandings Castle sleeps in the summer sun, the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, brother of the Earl of Emsworth, is busily engaged in writing his Reminiscences, and they look set to be as warm as the weather, if not warmer. For Galahad has led a thoroughly misspent life, and his acquaintances can all too easily recall their past follies in his company. Reputations are at stake and even the nobility and gentry are beginning to panic.

अविनाश मिश्र कृत ‘नये शेखर की जीवनी’ का अज्ञेय कृत ‘शेखर : एक जीवनी’ से केवल इतना ही संबंध है कि नये शेखर ने पुराने शेखर से ईमानदारी सीखी है। इस प्रशिक्षण में जीवन घनघोर और नगर शोर हो गए हैं। ‘शेखर त्रयी’ के अंग और अब तक प्रकाशित ‘नये शेखर की जीवनी’ के दो खंडों—‘आगमन’ और ‘प्रस्थान’—में 1986-2036 के बीच के भारतीय नागरिक समय का स्वप्न और दु:स्वप्न, यथार्थ और कल्पना, आदर्श और पतन दर्ज हैं।

गोदान - प्रेमचंद का साहित्य केवल गांधीवाद की शिक्षा नहीं देता, केवल स्वाधीनता की लड़ाई की कहानी नहीं कहता! उनका...

Brought to you by Penguin. As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? 'The novel that...

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.

A Hindi classic from author Jaishankar Prasad.

आधुनिक ईरान जिन कल्चरल और सामाजिक विरोधाभासों में जीता है उसका एक गहरा, सच्चा, कलात्मक चित्र प्रस्तुत करनी हैं...