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Illustrated Classics: Oliver Twist — Illustrated Classics: Oliver Twist

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The Alchemist — The Alchemist

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Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson

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Midnights Children — Midnights Children

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Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight’ s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.

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Mahabharata By Veda Vyasa — Mahabharata By Veda Vyasa

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The Mahabharata presents sweeping visions of the cosmos and humanity and intriguing and frightening glimpses of divinity in an ancient narrative that is accessible, interesting, and compelling for anyone willing to learn the basic themes of Hindu culture. The Mahabharata definitely is one of those creations of human language and spirit that has traveled far beyond the place of its original creation and will eventually take its rightful place on the highest shelf of world literature beside Homer's epics, the Greek tragedies, the Bible, Shakespeare, and similarly transcendent works. This collection of 3 Volumes contains 42 different chapters:1. The Kuru Princes of Hastinapura - Veda Vyasa's epic on the Bharata race was first recited in public by his disciple Vaishampayana at the behest of the ageless seer Vyasa himself. The recital took place in the august presence of king Janamejaya, great-grandson of Vyasa, and the many learned sages who had assembled for Janamejaya's Sarpa Satra (a twelve-year-long Yajnavv). This volume describes the lineage of the Kuru princes. When Pandu, the father of the Pandavas, dies in the forest, his wife Kunti returns to Hastinapura with the five boys.The great Dronacharya trains the Kuru princes in the art of war. The feats of strength preformed by Bheema, and Arjuna's skill at wielding the bow awake jealousy in the minds of Duryodhana and the other Kuru princes.Duryodhana plots the exile of the Pandavas to the city of Varanavata. Acting on the coded warning given by Vidura, the Pandavas manage to escape from the burning house of shellac.They live in the guise of mendicants at Ekachakrapura. Later they proceed to Panchala to attend the Swayamvara of Draupadi. Arjuna, the skilful archer, wins Draupadi's hand. In order to obey their mother's words that they must share everything equally, all the five brothers are married with due ceremony to Draupadi. The Pandavas are recalled to Hastinapura and are given half the Kingdom.2. The Pandavas in Exile- Volume 1 described the training of the P

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Best Seller Novel — Best Seller Novel

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1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives...Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has sold eight million copies worldwide. Through Khaled Hosseini's brilliant writing, a previously unknown part of the world was brought to life.

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The Fountainhead - FOR SALE — The Fountainhead - FOR SALE

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This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.

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Eidgah munshi premchand — Eidgah munshi premchand

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Ekada classics , eidgah aur anya kahaniya , munshi premchand

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Three Men in a Boat — Three Men in a Boat

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Three Men in a Boat FOR CLASS IX (TERM I & II)

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Julius Caesar for class 10th icse — Julius Caesar for class 10th icse

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Shakespeare's Julius Ceaser Contents: 1. SHAKESPEARE AND HIS AGE 2. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE 3. SHAKESPEAR'S MIND AND ART 4. THE STORY OF THE PLAY 5. ACT-WISE, SCENE-WISE SUMMARY 6. SOME USEFUL INFORMATION 7. REFERENCE TO CONTEXT (ANNOTATION) 8. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 9. CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY 10. TEXT WITH MODERN ENGLISH REBDERING 11. NOTES 13. GLOSSARY

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Malgudi days — Malgudi days

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Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan's imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human experience.An astrologer's day --The missing mail --The doctor's word --Gateman's gift --The blind dog --Fellow-feeling --The tiger's claw --Iswaran --Such perfection --Father's help --The snake-song --Engine trouble --Forty-five a month --Out of business --Attila --The axe --Lawley Road --Trail of the green blazer --The martyr's corner --Wife's holiday --A shadow --A willing slave --Leela's friend --Mother and son --Naga --Selvi --Second opinion --Cat within --The edge --God and the cobbler --Hungry child --Emden

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Heidi is the story of a charming — Heidi is the story of a charming

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Orphaned Heidi lives with her gruff but caring grandfather on the side of Swiss mountain, where she befriends young Peter the goat-herd. She leads an idyllic life, until she is forced to leave the mountain she has always known to go and live with a sickly girl in the city. Will Heidi ever see her grandfather again? A classic tale of a young girl's coming-of-age, of friendship, and familial love.

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The Kite Runner — The Kite Runner

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The Invisible Man — The Invisible Man

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This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.

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Go Set A Watchman — Go Set A Watchman

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‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus.Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.

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Selected Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant — Selected Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

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Một thị dân Paris độc thân năm 1880 làm gì vào những ngày Chủ nhật? Chán chường vì quá nhàn rỗi, ông Patissot quyết định tìm chút không khí trong lành ở miền quê – vùng ngoại ô Paris nơi các họa sĩ thường đến vẽ những bữa trưa ngoài trời, những vũ hội dân dã, những buổi câu cá hay chèo thuyền. Mỗi chuyến đi là một cuộc phiêu lưu ngớ ngẩn: ông lạc đường, say rượu, bị phụ nữ cười nhạo… Và những ngày Chủ nhật của ông chỉ càng tô đậm sự lố bịch và cô đơn của người công chức mọn. Những Chủ nhật của một thị dân Paris đầy hài hước và châm biếm, phơi bày sự vô nghĩa của tư tưởng tuân theo số đông, lối sống khuôn mẫu và sự ngu muội đặc trưng của tầng lớp thị dân thế kỷ 19 ở Pháp. Tập sách gồm chín truyện ngắn này khắc họa đa dạng hình ảnh từ vị tiến sĩ gàn dở, những người công chức quèn cho đến cô thôn nữ bé mọn với cuộc đời bi kịch, v.v. Tất thảy tạo nên một bức tranh đa diện về xã hội Pháp qua đôi mắt của bậc thầy truyện ngắn Guy de Maupassant.

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The Art of War by Sun Tzu — The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.(Original publish date was circa 500 BCE.)

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The Kite Runner — The Kite Runner

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The Kite Runner in complete new condition — The Kite Runner in complete new condition

₹250 ~~₹599~~

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The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land.Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority.But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.

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William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1 and 2 — William Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1 and 2

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Charles Darwin -On the origin of species best condition — Charles Darwin -On the origin of species best condition

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Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task. Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness, revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment, and—by implication—within the human world. Written for the general reader, in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature, The Origin of Species remains one of the founding documents of the modern age.

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Beyond Good and Evil. Best condition — Beyond Good and Evil. Best condition

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Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics."One of the greatest books of a very great thinker." —Michael Tanner

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Sherlock hoes — Sherlock hoes

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No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most popular works of legendary humorist and novelist Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans. Whether it's the new, complete, and uncensored version of his autobiography hitting bestseller lists or the removal of certain controversial language from one of his novels, his name and his legacy remain a topic of conversation--and undoubtedly will for years to come. There's no better time to appreciate his stories, or read them for the very first time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson are collected in this timeless and elegant book. Part of the Canterbury Classics series, Mark Twain features a beautiful cover, a ribbon bookmark, and other elements to enhance the reading experience, along with an introduction by a renowned Twain scholar that will enlighten new and familiar readers alike. This edition of Mark Twain is a treasure to enjoy forever--just like the writing of Twain himself!

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The Diary of a Young Girl — The Diary of a Young Girl

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The Diary Of A Young Girl

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White nights — White nights

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Este ebook presenta "Noches blancas", con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Noches blancas es una novela corta de Fiódor Dostoyevski, publicada en 1848. El protagonista es el arquetipo del joven soñador y solitario que persigue sus quimeras en medio de la soledad y la pobreza. Durante uno de sus largos y cotidianos paseos por las calles de San Petersburgo se encuentra con una joven, Nástienka. Hasta entonces, éste nunca había hablado con mujeres y mucho menos se había enamorado, pero hay algo de ella que le hechiza. El hecho de haber presentido el amor en sus sinceras conversaciones con aquélla será suficiente para que el soñador se considere un bienaventurado pese al carácter siempre esquivo de la realidad. El relato está estructurado durante cuatro noches y una mañana. Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski (1821 - 1881) es uno de los principales escritores de la Rusia Zarista, cuya literatura explora la psicología humana en el complejo contexto político, social y espiritual de la sociedad rusa del siglo XIX.

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