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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Seul l'être capable d'indépendance spirituelle est digne des grandes entreprises. Tel Napoléon qui n'hésita pas à ouvrir le feu sur une foule désarmée, Raskolnikov, qui admire le grand homme, se place au-dessus du commun des mortels. Les considérations théoriques qui le poussent à tuer une vieille usurière cohabitent en s'opposant dans l'esprit du héros et constituent l'essence même du roman. Pour Raskolnikov, le crime qu'il va commettre n'est que justice envers les hommes en général et les pauvres qui se sont fait abusés en particulier. « Nous acceptons d'être criminels pour que la terre se couvre enfin d'innocents », écrira Albert Camus. Mais cet idéal d'humanité s'accorde mal avec la conscience de supériorité qui anime le héros, en qualité de « surhomme », il se situe au-delà du bien et du mal. Fomenté avec un sang-froid mêlé de mysticisme, le meurtre tourne pourtant à l'échec. Le maigre butin ne peut satisfaire son idéal de justice, tandis que le crime loin de l'élever de la masse, l'abaisse parmi les hommes. Raskolnikov finira par se rendre et accepter la condamnation, par-là même, il accèdera à la purification. Crime et Châtiment est le roman de la déchéance humaine, l’œuvre essentielle du maître de la littérature russe. — Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot
Half girlfriend
HALF GIRLFRIEND (HINDI) Once upon a time, there was a Bihari boy called Madhav. He fell in love with a girl from Delhi called Riya. Madhav didn't speak English well. Riya did. Madhav wanted a relationship. Riya didn't. Riya just wanted friendship. Madhav didn't. Riya suggested a compromise. She agreed to be his half girlfriend. From the author of the blockbuster novels Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, 2 States and Revolution 2020 comes a simple and beautiful love story that will touch your heart and inspire you to chase your dreams. (Written By Chetan Bhagat)
Reading book
On a legendary road across Spain, travelled by pilgrims of San Tiago, we find Paulo Coelho on a contemporary quest for ancient wisdom. This journey becomes a truly initiatory experience, and Paulo is transformed forever as he learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life.The Pilgrimage has a very important place in the work of Paulo Coelho, not just because it is the first of his major books, after which came The Alchemist, but because of the complete way in which it expresses the humanity of Paulo's philosophy and the depth of his search.'Coelho's writing is beautifully poetic but his message is what counts ... He gives me hope and puts a smile on my face.' THE EXPRESS'His books have had a life-enhancing impact on millions of people.' THE TIMES'One of the few to deserve the term "publishing phenomenon".' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'Paulo Coelho ... evokes loyalty and emotion around the world.' THE IRISH TIMES
You only live once
'Warm, funny, and life-affirming!' - Anshu Mor, Stand-up Comedian. Imagine you disappear. Twenty years later, three people are looking for you.One is dying to meet you again.The other wishes you had never met them.The third wishes to have met you at least once.You are one person. Aren't you? But you are not the same for each one of them.Find answers about your own life in this inspiring story reflective of the youth in India. You will join a broken but rising YouTube star Alara, a struggling but hopeful stand-up comedian Aarav, and a psycho but zen beach-shack owner Ricky. Together, take the journey to seek the truth behind the famous singer Elisha's disappearance somewhere by the deep sea in Goa.Will you be able to find Elisha? Or will you end up finding yourself? Read yet another gripping tale from the bestselling author of On The Open Road - three lives five cities one startup!
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
October junction
चित्रा और सुदीप सच और सपने के बीच की छोटी-सी खाली जगह में 10 अक्टूबर 2010 को मिले और अगले 10 साल हर 10 अक्टूबर को मिलते रहे। एक साल में एक बार, बस। अक्टूबर जंक्शन के ‘दस दिन’ 10/अक्टूबर/ 2010 से लेकर 10/अक्टूबर/2020 तक दस साल में फैले हुए हैं।एक तरफ सुदीप है जिसने क्लास 12th के बाद पढ़ाई और घर दोनों छोड़ दिया था और मिलियनेयर बन गया। वहीं दूसरी तरफ चित्रा है, जो अपनी लिखी किताबों की पॉपुलैरिटी की बदौलत आजकल हर लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल की शान है। बड़े-से-बड़े कॉलेज और बड़ी-से-बड़ी पार्टी में उसके आने से ही रौनक होती है। हर रविवार उसका लेख अखबार में छपता है। उसके आर्टिकल पर सोशल मीडिया में तब तक बहस होती रहती है जब तक कि उसका अगला आर्टिकल नहीं छप जाता।हमारी दो जिंदगियाँ होती हैं। एक जो हम हर दिन जीते हैं। दूसरी जो हम हर दिन जीना चाहते हैं, अक्टूबर जंक्शन उस दूसरी ज़िंदगी की कहानी है। ‘अक्टूबर जंक्शन’ चित्रा और सुदीप की उसी दूसरी ज़िंदगी की कहानी है।
ISC Macbeth 12th
Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.
The Kite Runner by Author of A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
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.
Keepers of the Kalchakra
A seemingly random selection of heads of state are struck down like flies by unnamed killers who work with the clinical efficiency of butchers. Except that they leave no trace of their methods. Welcome back to the shadowy and addictive world of Ashwin Sanghi. After The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, The Krishna Key and The Sialkot Saga, Ashwin Sanghi returns at last with another quietly fearsome tale—this time of men who guard the ‘Kalachakra’ or The Wheel of Time. Sanghi describes a world of people at war with one another—a boomeranging conflict of faiths that results in acts of such slow and planned human cruelty that they defy human imagination. Caught in the midst of this madness is Vijay Sundaram, a geek scientist who is only dimly aware that the wider sky outside his laboratory is stretched taut and close to being torn apart by forces that he wants simply to have nothing to do with. But events conspire to propel Vijay into the labyrinth of Milesian Labs, a centre of research deep in the forested hills of Uttarakhand. What he stumbles upon is a primordial clue to a galactic secret that could accelerate the downward spiral of humankind. Trapped and wholly unaware of his actual foe, Vijay races against time to save humanity—and himself. Zigzagging from Rama’s crossing to Lanka to the birth of Buddhism; from the origin of Wahhabism to the Einsteinian gravitational wave-detectors of LIGO; from the charnel-grounds of naked tantric practitioners to the bespoke suits of the Oval Office; and from the rites of Minerva, shrouded in frankincense, to the smoke-darkened ruins of Nalanda, Keepers of the Kalachakra is a journey that will have you gasping for breath—but one that you cannot abandon till all the pieces of the jigsaw come together. Till you come up gobsmack against an end that you simply did not see coming.
War of Lanka - Amish Tripathi
LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH.BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE?INDIA, 3400 BCE.Greed. Rage. Grief. Love. Smouldering tinder, waiting to trigger a war.But this war is different. This one is for Dharma. This war is for the greatest Goddess of them all.Sita has been kidnapped. Defiantly, she dares Raavan to kill her - she'd rather die than allow Ram to surrender.Ram is beside himself with grief and rage. He prepares for war. Fury is his fuel. Calm focus, his guide.Raavan thought he was invincible. He thought he'd negotiate and force a surrender. Little did he know ...The first three books of the second-fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history - the Ram Chandra Series - explore the individual journeys of Ram, Sita and Raavan. In this, the epic fourth book of the series, their narrative strands crash into each other, and explode in a slaughterous war.Will Ram defeat the ruthless and fiendish Raavan, constrained as he is by the laws of Dharma? Will Lanka burn to a cinder or fight back like a cornered tiger? Will the terrible costs of war be worth the victory?Most importantly, will the Vishnu rise? And will the real enemies of the land fear the Vishnu? For fear is the mother of love.
The Krishna Key - Ashwin Sanghi
Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind. Humanity despaired of its fate if the Blue God were to die but was reassured that he would return in a fresh avatar when needed in the eventual Dark Age—the Kaliyug.In modern times, a poor little rich boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar.Only, he is a serial killer.In this heart-stopping tale, the arrival of a murderer who executes his gruesome and brilliantly thought-out schemes in the name of God is the first clue to a sinister conspiracy to expose an ancient secret—Krishna’s priceless legacy to mankind.Historian Ravi Mohan Saini must breathlessly dash from the submerged remains of Dwarka and the mysterious lingam of Somnath to the icy heights of Mount Kailash, in a quest to discover the cryptic location of Krishna’s most prized possession. From the sand-washed ruins of Kalibangan to a Vrindavan temple destroyed by Aurangzeb, Saini must also delve into antiquity to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice.Ashwin Sanghi brings you yet another exhaustively researched whopper of a plot, while providing an incredible alternative interpretation of the Vedic Age that will be relished by conspiracy buffs and thriller-addicts alike.
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
World greatest shory stories
The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."
The kite runner
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.
A thousand splendid suns
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction."A Thousand Splendid Suns" is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.
Chetan Bhagat Collection(set of 8 books)
CHETAN BHAGAT COLLECTION Five Point Someone This is not a book that will teach you how to get into IIT or even survive it. In fact it describes how bad things can get if you don 39 t think straight. Funny dark and entertaining Five Point Someone is the story of three friends whose measly five point something GPAs come in the way of everything mdash their friendships their love life their future. Will they make it? One Night the Call Center In the winter of 2004 a writer meets a young girl on an overnight train journey. To pass the time she offers to tell him a story. However she has one condition that he make it his second book. The writer hesitates but asks what the story is about. The girl replies that the story is about six people working in a call center one night. It was the night they got a phone call. A phone call from God. One Night the Call Center is the second of bestselling author Chetan Bhagat rsquo s novels. The 3 Mistakes of My Life In late 2000 a young boy in Ahmedabad dreams of owning a business. To accommodate his friends rsquo passion he opens a cricket shop. However nothing comes easy in a turbulent city. To realize their goals they will have to face it all mdash religious politics calamities unacceptable love and above all their own mistakes. Will they make it? Can an individual rsquo s dreams overcome the nightmares of real life? Can we succeed despite mistakes? 2 States The Story of My Marriage Welcome to 2 States the story of Krish and
Odyssey Homer Penguin Classics
The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats – ship-wrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon – Odysseus must test his bravery and native cunning to reach his homeland and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.E. V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey was the very first Penguin Classic to be published, and has itself achieved classic status. For this edition, Rieu’s text has been sensitively revised and a new introduction added to complement his original introduction.
TWISTED hate by ana huang
TWISTED HATE by Ana Huang Bestseller Romance Novel Selling my Twisted Hate in good condition. Perfect for romance readers who enjoy enemies-to-lovers, tension-filled chemistry, and addictive storytelling. Popular romance novel Engaging storyline & fast-paced read Great addition to your book collection Condition: Used but well-maintained DM if interested.
