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Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.

"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man", a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literature.

Chanakya's Chant is a thrilling novel that tells its listeners about a sharp parallel story between two individuals. One of these individuals is the very person who brought the scattered Indian subcontinent under the reign of Chandragupta Maurya-Chanakya. Chanakya is one of the wisest political strategists to have ever lived in the history of India. The second protagonist is Gangasagar Mishra, who is a rather insignificant Brahmin teacher who seems to be struggling to make ends meet but is actually a reincarnation of Chanakya himself.

From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the best-selling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.

ഒന്നര നൂറ്റാ്യുുമുമ്പ് എഴുതപ്പെട്ട ഭാരതേന്ദു ഹരിശ്ചന്ദ്രയുടെ പ്രഹസനത്തില്‍നിന്ന് ഒരു കഥാപാത്രം, ഗോവര്‍ധന്‍, ഇറങ്ങിനടക്കുന്നു. നിരപരാധിയായിട്ടും, നിരപരാധിയെന്ന് എല്ലാവരും സമ്മതിച്ചിട്ടും, ശിക്ഷിക്കാന്‍ വിധിക്കപ്പെട്ട ഗോവര്‍ധന്റെ മുമ്പില്‍, പുറത്ത്, അനീതിയുടെ അനന്തവിസ്മൃതിയിലാണ്ടു ലോകത്തില്‍ കാലം തളംകെട്ടിക്കിടക്കുകയാണ്. പിമ്പോ മുമ്പോ ഭൂതമോ ഭാവിയോ ഇല്ലാതായ അയാളുടെ കൂടെ പുരാണങ്ങളില്‍നിന്നും, ചരിത്രത്തില്‍ നിന്നും സാഹിത്യത്തില്‍നിന്നും ഒട്ടേറെ കഥാ പാത്രങ്ങള്‍ ചേരുന്നു. ചിലര്‍ അയാള്‍ക്കൊപ്പം ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ ചോദിച്ചുകൊണ്ട്. ചിലര്‍ അയാളുടെ ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ക്കിരയായി.

The only educated guy in the village, Sachin was going back to his village after 10 years. On the way to the village, the bus suddenly stops working near a forest and Sachin gets down and roams around and he gets attracted by a waterfall and goes deep into the forest. While he is watching the waterfall, his foot slips and when he is about to fall into the ditch, a girl holds his hand and saves him. He gets mesmerized by her beauty and Sachin falls in love with her.

Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Anna Popplewell, best known for her leading role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Stevie Davies. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt...

This audio edition is read by Marin Ireland and Michael Urie as Marcellus. It was a Finalist for Audiobook of the Year. A New York Times Bestseller * A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Soon to be a Netflix Film “This fantastical debut audiobook will enchant listeners. Gifted vocal...

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan—unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms— a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house’s warped and unsettling floor plans When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an...

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below". At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old Devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man.

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.

'यार जादूगर' हिंदी साहित्य की मुख्य धारा के उपन्यासों में विषय-वस्तु के लिहाज से एकदम नया और चौंकाने वाली कहानी है। कल्पना की जमीन पर बोया गया ऐसा यथार्थ जो मानवीय संबंधों और उसके मनोविज्ञान पर दार्शनिकता की गाँठ खोलता रेशा-रेशा उघाड़ते हुए एक प्राकृतिक शाश्वत सत्य के समीप पहुँच पूर्ण होता है। 'यार जादूगर' मृत्यु का महोत्सव है और जीवन का लोक संगीत भी, जो मृत्यु की अनिवार्यता को स्वीकार कर जीवन की सार्थकता को मलंग हो स्वीकार करने की कोशिश है। लेखक नीलोत्पल मृणाल की आवाज़ में सुनिए "यार जादूगर"!

This novel, based on the life of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, a well-known Bengali novelist and short story writer, is literary and biographical fiction. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was arguably one of the most popular novelists in the Bengali language. He mainly wrote about the lifestyle, tragedy and struggle of the common people and social practices, because of which he was able to touch the lives of several people. While there are several books published on the life of Sarat, however, no book has been as well-researched and detailed.

Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Mean Chey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money - a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and friendship and betrayal.

A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world. The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece 'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed...