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GODFATHER BY MARIO PUZO — GODFATHER BY MARIO PUZO

₹500 ~~₹550~~

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Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather.A modern masterpiece,The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking forty years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.

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GODFATHER BY MARIO PUZO — GODFATHER BY MARIO PUZO

₹500 ~~₹550~~

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The Alchemist — The Alchemist

₹100

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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A book for poetry lovers — A book for poetry lovers

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Swami and Friends — Swami and Friends

₹160 ~~₹215~~

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An unusual and witty travel book about the United States of America. At the age of fifty, when most people have settled for the safety of routine, R. K. Narayan left India for the first time to travel through America. In this account of his journey, the writer’s pen unerringly captures the clamour and energy of New York city, the friendliness of the West Coast, the wealth and insularity of the Mid-West, the magnificence of the Grand Canyon...Threading their way through the narrative are a host of delightful characters—from celebrities like Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, Martha Graham, Cartier Bresson, Milton Singer, Edward G. Robinson and Ravi Shankar to the anonymous business tycoon on the train who dismissed the writer when he discovered Narayan had nothing to do with India’s steel industry. As a bonus, there are wry snapshots of those small but essential aspects of American life—muggers, fast food restaurants, instant gurus, subway commuters, TV advertisements, and American football. An entrancing and compelling travelogue about an endlessly fascinating land.

4 months ago

Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary — Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary

₹130

The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an American millionaire in search of his cousin. It started with the sinking of the Lusitania. . . . An American, carrying secret papers, placed them in the care of a young American woman. She was to carry them to England, and advertise for the American: if he did not answer her ad, she should assume he was lost, and place the papers in the hands of the American Ambassador. The American survived, thank God. But the girl whom he entrusted disappeared before she could advertise for him. The papers she carried are lost -- and even now, five years later, the fate of England's postwar recovery depends upon them. . . . (Jacketless library hardcover.)

3 months ago

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Agatha Christie And Then There were None — Agatha Christie And Then There were None

₹130

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Dan Brown Inferno — Dan Brown Inferno

₹135

'Seek and ye shall find.'With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon's knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.With only a few lines from Dante's dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance - sculptures, paintings, buildings - to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat.Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history's most ominous literary classics, Inferno is Dan Brown's most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, a breathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you close the book.

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Collected Short stories of Saki — Collected Short stories of Saki

₹120

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastar and The Unrest Cure. 'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'[Description from back cover]

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Miss Julie — Miss Julie

₹100

Het is bijzonder verheugend dat naast het prozawerk van de Zweedse schrijver August Strindberg nu een deel van zijn dramatisch oeuvre, gedeeltelijk voor het eerst in vertaling is verschenen. Het betreft tien eenacters, ontstaan tussen 1888 en 1892, waaronder het beroemde stuk "Freule Julie". Ze werden in het seizoen 1984/85 met groot succes ten tonele gebracht door de theatergroep Persona. De uitgave wordt voorafgegaan door een uitstekende algemene inleiding over leven en werken van Strindberg (10 blz.) en over de eenacters zelf (ruim 6 blz.). Het theaterhistorisch zeer belangrijke voorwoord bij "Freule Julie" van 1888 is tevens opgenomen. In de vertalingen zijn de nieuwste tekstgegevens verwerkt uit de verzamelde werken die in Zweden bezig zijn te verschijnen. Op een na zijn de vertalingen van Karst Woudstra. De uitgave is nogal slordig gecorrigeerd. Deze bundel mag in geen bibliotheek ontbreken.

2 months ago

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The Way of the World — The Way of the World

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"LADY. With Mirabell? You call my blood into my face with mentioning that traitor. She durst not have the confidence. I sent her to negotiate an affair, in which if I'm detected I'm undone. If that wheedling villain has wrought upon Foible to detect me, I'm ruined. O my dear friend, I'm a wretch of wretches if I'm detected."In 1700, when The Way of the World was performed on the English stage at Lincoln’s Inn Fields (a new theatre that William Congreve managed), it was not a popular success. This was the last play Congreve was to write, perhaps for that reason. Since that time, however, this play has come to be regarded not only as Congreve’s masterpiece, but as a classic example of the Comedy of Manners. The play is aptly named for two reasons. First, its action takes place in the “present,” which means it reflects the same social period during which the play was originally performed. Second, as a comedy of manners, its purpose is to expose to public scrutiny and laughter the often absurd yet very human passions and follies that characterize social behavior. It therefore transcends its time by holding a mirror to the fashionable world in all of its frivolity and confusion while posing something more precious and sensible as an antidote.As with all comedies of this type, the principle comic material consists of sexual relations and confrontations. Marriages are made for the sake of convenience and tolerated within precise social limits. Affairs are conventional, jealousies abound, lovers are coy, and gallantry is contrived. Dowries are the coin of the marriage realm and therefore they are of central concern in all contracts and adulterous intrigues. Congreve makes clear that the general way of the world may be funny but it is not particularly nice. In the way of all romantic comedies the “marriage of true minds” is finally achieved, but humiliation, cruelty, and villainy are the means by which the action goes forward. His comedy is not intended to remedy the world, of course, but to offer an insightful and amusin

4 months ago

The grapes of wrath — The grapes of wrath

₹450

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and hereJohn Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics.'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic The Grapes of Wrath remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad and his family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision. Adapted into a celebrated film directed by John Ford, and starring Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath is an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition here.

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Mulk Raj Anand -Collie — Mulk Raj Anand -Collie

₹299

Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India.

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Toni Morrison Beloved — Toni Morrison Beloved

₹499

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

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The vicar of Wakefield — The vicar of Wakefield

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The sweetness of a pastoral poem and the spice of a vivacious comedy mark the enduring charm of The Vicar of Wakefield. With artful skill and delicious humor Oliver Goldsmith describes the trials and triumphs that befall a simple village vicar and shows, in a series of climactic surprises, how unswerving faith is rewarded -- and villainy vanquished.

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The Alchemist — The Alchemist

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كوميديا للكاتب المسرحي الإنگليزي بن جونسون. عرضت لأول مرة عام ١٦١٠م ومثلتها فرقة رجال الملك المسرحية، وتعتبر من أفضل وأثري مسرحيات جونسون؛ يزعم صمويل تايلور كولريدج أنها واحدة من أفضل ثلاث حبكات في الأدب.

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THIS Is Book of Oliver twist — THIS Is Book of Oliver twist

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This book is Merchant of Venice written by Shakespeare's — This book is Merchant of Venice written by Shakespeare's

₹300

Art of Effective English Writing

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A TALE OF TWO CITIES — A TALE OF TWO CITIES

₹150 ~~₹225~~

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Charles Dickens wrote the historical novel A Tale of Two Cities. It depicts the tale of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, two men with similar exteriors but completely dissimilar personalities. Carton is a cynical English barrister, while Darnay is a romantic French aristocrat. The same woman, Lucie Manette, is the object of both of their affections.

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English literature — English literature

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The return of the native is widely recognized to be one of Thomas Hardy's most representative works. In this tale doomed love, passion, estrangement and melancholy, Hardy brilliantly explores the theme that is s familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role f chance in determining the course of action. When Clym Yeobright(the 'native') returns to Egdon Heath from his studies in Paris, he decides to reject his chosen profession and instead marry the lovely but capricious Eustacia Vye.Clym's passion for Eustacia leads to his estrangement with his mother, Mrs. Yeobright, who disapproves of the alliance. Prior to Clym's return, Eustacia loved Damon Wild-eve; that is, until he proposed marriage to Clym's cousin, Thomasin Yeobright. T further complicate things, Diggory Venn, a reddleman, secretly admires Thomasin.....

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White Fang — White Fang

₹250

White Fang, written by Jack London, is the mirror work of the author’s famous novel The Call of the Wild. Much of the story is written from the view point of the animal, and how he judges the world around him and adjusts accordingly. This book depicts the birth and life of White Fang, a three quarters wolf-dog hybrid. When famine sets in, a pack of wolves start pursuing two men in the northern wilderness. Later, with the ease of food, the leader of the pack – a she-wolf dog – gives birth to a litter of pups of which only one survives, to lead an unpredictable and dangerous life.

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The Tale of Troy — The Tale of Troy

₹350

Michael Rosen, Professor of Children's Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, and bestselling author, poet and broadcaster, introduces these great myths and legends of Ancient Egypt. Travel back deep in time to Ancient Egypt and discover the great myths and legends of the Sun God, Amen-Ra; the love story of Osiris and Isis; the curse of the book of Thoth and many other captivating tales of magic, treasure and aventure from one of the oldest and most fascinating civilizations in the world.

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Myths of the Norsemen — Myths of the Norsemen

₹300

The great Norse sagas, full of adventures, magic, and heroic deeds--Yggdrasill the World Tree, Odin's wanderings, Thor's hammer, the death of Baldur, Freya the bride, the vision of Ragnarok--these are tales told since time immemorial. Peopled with Frost Giants and Valkyries, Norns and all the gods of Asgard, Myths of the Norsemen brings to life the harsh but exciting world of the old Norsemen.

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Tales of the Greek Heroes — Tales of the Greek Heroes

₹250

Walk amongst the gods and menThe beautiful land of Greece is haunted by more than three thousand years of legend and history. In this gripping retelling of the Heroic Age, you'll meet the mighty POSEIDON, God of the Sea; ZEUS, the King of Heaven and Earth; HADES, Lord of the Dead; ARTEMIS the Huntress; APHRODITE, Immortal Lady of Beauty and Love; and many more mortals and gods. Their adventures are some of the oldest and most famous stories in the world. Introduced with wit and humour by Rick Riordan, creator of the highly successful Percy Jackson series.

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