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Any lover of Shakespeare or the Romantic poets can concede that poetry is pleasurable. But is it good for you? Can it teach you anything? These are questions that have beguiled and engaged eminent critics for millennia, and now you can develop your own answers and options with these 24 lectures.

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.

Manas ka hans is a brilliant attempt to bring forth the life of Goswami Tulsidas. The novel is an attempt to address the complications of religion through Tulsidas while portraying him as a person who was afflicted with all the virtues and vices known to human beings. How Tulsidas finds Shri Ram is a question that the author answers in a fashion that can only be termed brilliant, for lack of better word. The best thing about the work is that it doesn't attempt to glorify any God or deity but simply tries to go into the mind of the devotee - Tulsidas, in this case.

THE RAMAYANAM, an itihasa of the highest order, is considered adi kavya, the first poem to have been composed. Written by Valm ki during Rama’s time, and ratified by him, this timeless epic has been treated with utmost care by all acaryas in their famed commentaries. Since the advent of human civilization, it has inspired many poets and dramatists across the subcontinent and has been transcreated in almost all Bharat ya languages. Multiple layers of philosophy and theology are an embellishment to this classic. Its influence on Bharat ya music, dance, sculpture and textiles is unfathomable.

Now published in over 70 languages, this number one international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace. This is the incredible story of Julian Mantle, a superstar lawyer whose out-of-balance lifestyle leads him to a near-fatal heart attack in a packed courtroom. His collapse brings on a spiritual crisis, forcing him to seek answers to life's most important questions.

"The Greatest Story Ever ToldDispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins-the Pandavas and the Kouravas-but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Shaheen Khan. This definitive recording includes an introduction by J. D. Smith, read by Sagar Arya. The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian...

देश के सर्वोच्च साहित्यिक सम्मान ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित कन्नड़ लेखक गिरीश क़र्नाड़ का यह नाटक भारत के...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...

इस अत्यंत लोकप्रिय पुस्तक-माला की शुरुआत 1960 के दशक में हुई जब पहली बार नागरी लिपि में उर्दू की चुनी हुई शायरी के संकलन प्रकाशित कर राजपाल एण्ड सन्ज़ ने हिन्दी पाठकों को उर्दू शायरी का लुत्फ़ उठाने का अवसर प्रदान किया। इस पुस्तक-माला का संपादन उर्दू के सुप्रसिद्ध संपादक प्रकाश पंडित ने किया था। हर पुस्तक में शायर के संपूर्ण लेखन में से बेहतरीन शायरी का चयन है और पाठकों की सुविधा के लिए कठिन शब्दों के अर्थ भी दिए हैं। प्रकाश पंडित ने हर शायर के जीवन और लेखन पर - जिनमें से कुछ समकालीन शायर उनके परिचित भी थे - रोचक और चुटीली भूमिकाएं लिखी हैं।

Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life. The...

Dr. Bashir Badra is considered an poet of such stature, who has not only transcended into his readers' hearts and minds through the fame of his published couplets but also into the literary hall of fame of well-received poets. For his contribution to Urdu and Hindi literature, he was awarded the prestigious Padma Shree in 1995. Dr. Badra has been a part of many prestigious mushayraas world over. Dr. Badra's style of poetry resonates with the common man and demystifies the world of Urdu shayari while staying true to its essence.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney. Ovid's sensuous and witty...

About the Author: पंकज, एक प्रतिभाशाली लेखक, का जन्म भारत की विविध और सांस्कृतिक रूप से समृद्ध भूमि में हुआ था। उनके बचपन में, देवी-देवताओं, पौराणिक जीवों और अलौकिक कहानियों ने उनकी रचनात्मकता को बहुत प्रभावित किया। इन कहानियों ने विज्ञान कथा और पौराणिक कथाओं की दुनिया में उनकी रुचि को जगाया। अपनी शिक्षा पूरी करने के बाद, पंकज ने एक रोमांचक जीवन यात्रा शुरू की, जो उन्हें कनाडा के सुंदर परिदृश्यों में ले गई। उनकी भारतीय विरासत और कनाडा की आधुनिक संस्कृति ने उनकी कल्पना को और समृद्ध किया जिससे उनके लेखन में एक अनूठा दृष्टिकोण दिखाई देता है।

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...

Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...

When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―rendering the ancient poem in contemporary language that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)―critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman & Benedict Cumberbatch. ‘My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too...’ So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his...

Diwan-e-Ghalib is the famous collection of poetic works of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.