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कैसा कुत्ता है!' घुमक्कड़ कलाकार, गायक और कवि राहगीर की कविताओं का पहला संकलन है। इस संग्रह में राहगीर के लोकप्रिय गीतों के साथ बहुत-से ऐसे गीत और कविताएँ शामिल हैं, जो अभी तक न कहीं प्रकाशित हुए हैं और न ही प्रस्तुत।

In 1914 Paul Bumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed.Here, he tells their story. A few years after publication, the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque's novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare.

A scientist by profession but a poet at heart, Gauhar Raza is one of India’s leading Urdu poets of this age. He is also a social activist and a documentary filmmaker. Gauhar Raza's poetry has been known for frankness of tone and for the social concerns that they take up and treat sensitively. Khamoshi is a selection of his poetry including his famous poem Main Chahta hoon, in which he express his helplessness to write a romantic poem in the days of darkness.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Andrew Koji, best known for Warrior and Snake Eyes. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Murakami. One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy...

Russ commutes to work—not across town but through time. An ambitious employee stuck in Oracle Marketing Solutions’ mundane “near past” division, he longs for the excitement of ancient eras and distant futures. But Oracle’s secretive management has refused every one of his transfer requests, and Russ can’t understand why…until he makes a devastating discovery about his own timeline.

“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle."" —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a...

The only play written by him in his long career, Tiger Tiger serves as the perfect site for Singh to showcase a vast array of characters whose lives get intertwined due to unavoidable circumstances. Through this, he is able to present a critique of society and its double standards, using this opportunity to explore some of his favourite themes like cultural difference, prejudice, hypocrisy and deception.

त्याचं नि माझं कित्येक वर्षांपूर्वी हे ठरलं होतं! मृत्यू! मृत्यू म्हणजे एक्झॅक्टली काय? मानसिक स्तरावर ती अवस्था कशी असेल? मृत्यूनंतर माणसाचं खरं काय होतं? आत्मा उरतो का? केल्या पाप-पुण्याची फळं भोगण्यासाठी तो स्वर्ग- नरकात जात असेल, का काही उरतच नसेल? असले विषय गप्पांचे. त्यामुळे आम्ही दोघंच एकमेकांना! मला कोणी मित्र नाही; त्याला कोणी नाही. म्हणूनच आमचं ठरलं... एकदम पक्कं ठरलं! आमच्या दोघांपैकी जो आधी मरेल, त्यानं दुसर्‍याला या ना त्या प्रकारे सगळं सांगायचं. जमलं तर भेटायचं. तुम्हालाही जाणून घ्यायचेय पुढं काय होते ते? तर मग ऐका सु.शिं.ची अंगावर शहारे आणणारी थरार कथा... 'संदेह'.

For those looking for the real story behind the fictionalized movie account of the 47 Ronin story, this is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. It led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Japanese history, and in the process, created a new set of heroes in Japan.

The unforgettable story of an Afghan family’s escape from the Taliban and perilous trek across Europe to seek asylum, led by one extraordinarily courageous woman. This is the second novel by Nadia Hashimi, the author of last year’s breakout, THE PEARL THAT BROKE ITS SHELL. Mahmoud’s...

1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz - but their differences seem insurmountable....

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! From the bestselling author of Truths I Never Told You, Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer’s powerful WWII novel follows a woman’s...

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time...

সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় এর অনান্য ছদ্মনামের মধ্যে একটি - নীললোহিত। নীললোহিত সমগ্রের চারটি ভাগে , উনি লিখেছেন জীবনের নানান ভাবনা এবং তার অনুভূতির কথা। জীবনের এই পথ-চলার গল্পে বারবার উঠে এসেছে বহু মানুষ তাদের নিজস্ব যাপনের খুঁটিনাটি নিয়ে। আর তারই

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.

The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portuguese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray.

മനസ്സിന്റെ ചാഞ്ചല്യങ്ങള്‍ വ്യക്തിന്ധങ്ങളെ പലപ്പോഴും നിയന്ത്രിക്കാറു്യുെണ്ടങ്കിലും ഊഷ്മള ബന്ധങ്ങള്‍...

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.