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Registan mein rehne waale ghummakad logon ki jeevan shaili, lokgaayan se judi jaatiyon ka samaaj mein sthaan aur jatil saamajik taanebaane mein upje vijaatiye prem ki gehri tees bhari kahani hai, Chhori Kamali. Iss kahani mein Maangniyaar lokgaayak aur ghummakad jogi ladki ka prem merudand hai aur uske aas-paas registaan ka jeevan aur ret ka baareek sawndarya ukera hua hai.

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive... a female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle... a young artist gets the biggest break of her career... a restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration... an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... How will they react? How would you? "Twelve Red Herrings" is the third collection of irresistible short stories from master storyteller, Jeffrey Archer.

Ashapurna Debi gazed into the heart of the domestic life of the Indian woman as no other writer in the world has done. In one story after another, numbering into thousands by the time she was done, she examined the imprisonment of the women within their homes and their responses to the power play, pressures and hypocrisies lying beneath the surface of the apparent solidity of the middle-class urban family.

Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House on Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For Esperanza, Mango Street is a desolate landscape of concrete and run-down tenements where she discovers the hard realities of life - the fetters of class and gender, the spectre of racial enmity and the mysteries of sexuality. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, Esperanza is able to rise above hopelessness and create for herself "a house all of my own quiet as snow, a space for myself to go."

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.

An offshoot of the oral tradition of storytelling, the short story shot to prominence in the latter half of the 19th century due to an increased demand for short fiction in magazines and journals. Over time, it established itself as an important and popular genre. From PU Songling's classic Painted Skin, Edgar Allan Poe's sensational The Purloined Letter to Guy de Maupassant's poignant Two Friends, 51 Great Short Stories presents some of the finest works of short fiction.

Sachchidananda Hirananda Vastyayana ‘Agyeya’ (Ajneya) is an important poet and writer of the ‘adhunik kaal’ (modern period) of Hindi literature. Meri Priya Kahaniyan (My Favourite Stories) is an anthology of 12 of his selected stories, where after 15 years of hiatus, he revisits his old writings as an exercise to reflect on questions of audience reception, truth and the position of a writer vis-à-vis the world he inhabits and the world that he creates.

The 39 short stories in this book will blow you away. Starting with a ghost story by Rabindranath Tagore, Indias most famous writer, and ending with a fable by Kanishk Tharoor, a writer who has come of age in the 21st century, these literary masterpieces showcase the extraordinary range and diversity of our storytelling tradition.

रस्किन बाॅन्ड ने एक बार कहा था कि वे भूत-प्रेत में विश्वास नहीं करते लेकिन उनको हर समय, हर जगह भूत नज़र आते -जंगल में, सिनेमा के बाहर भीड़ में और बार में।

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.

Algoze Ki Dhun Par is a collection of 10 stories written by Divya Vijay. The stories revolve around strong female characters who remain resilient in the face of adversity. Despite their struggles, they live by their own rules. These powerful and well-written stories are bound to stay with the listeners for a long time. This is Divya Vijay's first story collection and it received the best manuscript award at Lit-O-Fest 2017.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, read by Juliet Stevenson. In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl tells a twisted story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police...

This collection of stories by Kishore Chaudhary depicts the author’s empathy and ability to find the extraordinary in the many mundane things in life. The title story, 'Jadu Bhari Ladki', depicts how a little girl endures and triumphantly lives through the most difficult situations, which is magical in its own right.

The Panchatantra is a collection of short stories from India, written more than 5,000 years ago! This is a collection of stories from that legendary collection. The stories inculcate moral values in children in a subtle and fun manner. Enjoy the stories, where plants and animals can converse with human beings too!

In Preeti Shenoy’s exciting new short story, a young girl, fresh off a break-up, repeatedly finds playing cards turning up on her path. At first she is dismissive, but they keep reappearing. Do the cards mean something? What are they trying to tell her? Will she find new love?

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS comes a playful, richly inquisitive collection exploring the connections and disruptions which define us. Throughout MY DEAR YOU, normal people go through extraordinary transformations. A government...

Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real...

Hum Fida-e-Lucknow is an anthology of stories written by Amritlal Nagar where he weaves fictional narratives around the many colourful characters that one could easily find in the city of Lucknow. As the place where he spent almost all his life, his fascination, love and memories of Lucknow come together in this work.

Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. These stories explore the...