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The painted Veil
容貌娇美而又爱慕虚荣的英国女子凯蒂,为了避免自己变成一位老姑娘,接受了生性孤僻的医生瓦尔特·费恩的求婚。她离开了上世纪20年代伦敦浮华而空虚的社交圈,随瓦尔特远赴神秘的东方殖民地——香港。对婚姻感到不满和无趣,凯蒂开始悄悄与令她芳心摇动的香港助理布政司查理·唐生偷情。面对不忠的妻子,瓦尔特决定举家前往霍乱横行的中国内地行医。在遥远美丽的异乡,他们每天与死亡和绝望擦身而过,经历了从未体验过的情感波澜……在爱情、背叛与死亡的漩涡中挣扎的凯蒂,亲历了幻想破灭与生死离别之后,终将生活的面纱从她的眼前渐渐揭去,从此踏上了不悔的精神成长之路。
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This is a beautiful hardbound edition of Dracula that comes with gilded edges and elegantly designed endpapers. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship’ s logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which add a level of detailed realism to Stoker’ s story. At the time of its publication, Dracula was considered a ‘ straightforward horror novel’ based on imaginary creations of supernatural life. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form through this novel.
Gaban premchand hindi
यह उपन्यास प्रेमचंद द्वारा लिखित हिंदी की सभी उपन्यासों में सबसे अधिक लोकप्रिय है। यह उपन्यास मध्यम वर्ग की मार्मिक स्थिति पर आधारित है। प्रेमचंद ने गबन के द्वारा समाज के जिस रूप को चित्रित किया है वह आज भी उसी प्रकार समाज में फलीभूत है और शायद भविषय में भी बना रहेगा। जो लोग दिखावे को पसंद करते हैं और शादी -विवाह पर अपनी हैसियत से अधिक खर्च करते हैं तथा खुद को धनी दिखाने की कोशिश में कर्ज में धंसते चले जाते हैं , उनका सारा जीवन उस कर्ज को चुकाने में गुजरता है। इसी कारण वे कई बात काम तक करने को मजबूर हो जाते है।
RANGBHOOMI PREMCHAND NOVEL HINDI
कर्मभूमि प्रेमचन्द का राजनीतिक उपन्यास है जो पहली बार १९३२ में प्रकाशित हुआ। आज कई प्रकाशकों द्वारा इसके कई संस्करण निकल चुके हैं। इस उपन्यास में विभिन्न राजनीतिक समस्याओं को कुछ परिवारों के माध्यम से प्रस्तुत किया गया है। ये परिवार यद्यपि अपनी पारिवारिक समस्याओं से जूझ रहे हैं तथापि तत्कालीन राजनीतिक आन्दोलन में भाग ले रहे हैं।उपन्यास का कथानक काशी और उसके आस-पास के गाँवों से संबंधित है। आन्दोलन दोनों ही जगह होता है और दोनों का उद्देश्य क्रान्ति है। किन्तु यह क्रान्ति गाँधी जी के सत्याग्रह से प्रभावित है। गाँधीजी का कहना था कि जेलों को इतना भर देना चाहिए कि उनमें जगह न रहे और इस प्रकार शांति और अहिंसा से अंग्रेज सरकार पराजित हो जाए। इस उपन्यास की मूल समस्या यही है। उपन्यास के सभी पात्र जेलों में ठूस दिए जाते हैं। इस तरह प्रेमचन्द क्रान्ति के व्यापक पक्ष का चित्रण करते हुए तत्कालीन सभी राजनीतिक एवं सामाजिक समस्याओं को कथानक से जोड़ देते हैं। निर्धनों के मकान की समस्या, अछूतोद्धार की समस्या, अछूतों के मन्दिर में प्रवेश की समस्या, भारतीय नारियों की मर्यादा और सतीत्व की रक्षा की समस्या, ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य के दमन चक्र से उत्पन्न समस्याएँ, भारतीय समाज में व्याप्त धार्मिक पाखण्ड की समस्या पुनर्जागरण और नवीन चेतना के समाज में संचरण की समस्या, राष्ट्र के लिए आन्दोलन करने वालों की पारिवारिक समस्याएँ आदि इस उपन्यास में बड़े यथार्थवादी तरीके से व्यक्त हुई हैं।'कर्मभूमि' का नायक अमरकांत एक अस्थिर गांधीवादी के रूप में चित्रित किया गया है। अमरकांत तत्कालीन मध्यमवर्ग का प्रतिनिधि है, जिसकी मूल-प्रवृत्ति स्थिति के प्रति समझौतावादी है, उसकी राजनीतिक दृष्टि एवं चारित्रिक दृढ़ता अविश्वसनीय है। गांधीवाद से प्रभावित जन समुदाय की भावना, सामूहिक सत्याग्रह, गांवों के रचनात्मक कार्यक्रम का चित्रण पूरी आस्था से किया गया है। इनके सभी चरित्रों द्वारा लेखक ने राष्ट्रीय चेतना, आदर्श पारिवारिक व्यवस्था आदि में गांधी दर्शन स्पष्ट किया है।
The alchemist
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
Malgudi days - R.k Narayan
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
Wintering by Katherine May
Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine May thoughtfully shows us how to come through these times with the wisdom of knowing that, like the seasons, our winters and summers are the ebb and flow of life.
Diary of a wimpy kid
Life was better in the old days. Or was it?That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world.With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going 'old school' just too hard for a kid like Greg.
The Fault in our stars
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alternate cover editions exists here and here.Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for LiteratureOne of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize winning career.The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel García Márquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master.Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.
The Hidden Hindu
Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old, is searching for a mysterious middle-aged aghori (Shiva devotee), Om Shastri, who was traced more than 200 years ago before he was captured and transported to a high-tech facility on an isolated Indian island. When the aghori was drugged and hypnotized for interrogation by a team of specialists, he claimed to have witnessed all four yugas (the epochs in Hinduism) and even participated in both Ramayana and Mahabharata. Om's revelations of his incredible past that defied the nature of mortality left everyone baffled. The team also discovers that Om had been in search of the other immortals from every yuga. These bizarre secrets could shake up the ancient beliefs of the present and alter the course of the future. So who is Om Shastri? Why was he captured? Board the boat of Om Shastri's secrets, Prithvi's pursuit and adventures of other enigmatic immortals of Hindu mythology in this exciting and revealing journey.
Train to Pakistan
پاکستان ایکسپریس کا موضوع دورانِ تقسیم ہند و پاکستان کے فسادات ہیں۔ ناول پنجاب کے ایک گانو منوماجرا کے گرد گھومتا ہے جس کی بیشتر آبادی سکھ ہے اور ان کے مزارعہ مسلمان ہیں۔ سکھوں کے دل میں کوئی جذبۂ منافقت نہیں مگر کچھ اشعتال پسند انھیں زبردستی اشعتال کی راہ پر گامزن کردیتے ہیں۔
Someone Like You
The hum of a motorbike. The uproar of the crowd in the stadium. The cheering and clapping. All fell silent Just the thumping of their hearts remained and a questionwere they going to lose him? Thanks to the makeover by her sisters friends, the nerdy Niharika entered college more confident, more attractive. She meets the sweet, shy Tanmay, and the spoilt but lovely Pia and they become best friends. And when Akshat and she began dating, life finally seemed to be falling in place. Except that it wasn't Tanmays success in football had begun to change him. Akshats perfection seemed like a front for something dark and sinister. And their college senior Karthik? His aggressiveness was a cover for his mysterious past. Someone Like You is a powerful and touching story of friendship, love and betrayal.
