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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.
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.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 420 pages
Now a major film. Sara Fitzgerald's daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything -- whatever it takes - to save her child. Then the tests results come back time and again to show that no one in their family is a match for Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs, there is only one option: creating another baby, specifically designed to save her sister. For Sara, it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live, but she gets a beautiful new daughter, Anna, too. Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers that will rock her whole world. Because, aged thirteen, Anna has decided that she doesn't want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her own body.Source: WHSmith.co.uk
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Penguin Modern Classics) Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003–2004 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams&rsquoi; essay “Person-to-Person,” Williams’ notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author’s life. One of America’s greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright’s perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.
Khasakkinte Ithihasam
A restlessness born of guilt and despair leads Ravi to embark on a journey that ends in the remote village of Khasak in the picturesque Palghat countryside in Kerala. A land from the past, potent with dreams and legends, enfolds the traveller in a powerful and unsettling embrace. Ravi is bewitched and entranced as everything around him-the villagers; their children whom he teaches in a makeshift school; the elders who see him as a threat; the toddy-tappers; the shamans-takes on the quality of myth. And then reality, painful and threatening, begins to intrude on the sojourner's resting place and Ravi begins to understand that there is no escape from the relentless dictates of karma... Often poetic and dark, always complex and rich, The Legends of Khasak, O.V. Vijayan's much-acclaimed first novel, translated into English by the author, is an extraordinary achievement
