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World's greatest poems
A mere means to relax on a leisurely day for some, and for others being life itself, poetry has been written on almost everything that exists around us— from odes on seemingly insignificant objects to the lamentation of death of people revered worldwide. Poetry is something that is dream-like, and yet thought-provoking.The voyage into the beautiful and mesmerizing world of poetry in this edition begins in the fourteenth century with an extract from Chaucer’ s legendary work Canterbury Tales, and stops in the twentieth century with Dylan Thomas’ power-packed poetry, his vehemence on fighting death till your last breath. Notes have been scattered throughout this edition, enriching your understanding of the poems’ context, inspiration, varying interpretations, and even criticism. All this and much more lies ahead for you to discover in our eclectic collection of 50 World’ s Greatest Poems.“ Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley‘ Thus great with child to speak and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “ Fool,” said my Muse to me, “ look in thy heart, and write.” ’– Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella ‘ O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up— for you the flag is flung— for you the bugle trills . . .’– Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!
Long Sanskrit poem translated to English
Kumarasambhavam celebrates the love story of Siva and Parvati, whose passionate union results in the birth of their son, the young god Kumara. Beginning with a luminous description of the birth of Parvati, the poem proceeds in perfectly pitched sensuous detail through her courtship with Siva until the night of their wedding. It plays out their tale on the immense scale of supreme divinity, wherein the gods are viewed both as lovers and as cosmic principles. Composed in eight scintillating cantos, Kumarasambhavam continues to enchant readers centuries after it was first written. Hank Heifetz's sparkling translation brings to life the heady eroticism and sumptuous imagery of the original.
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.
"Preloved Prose: Nobel Tales from Secondhand Pages"
IncludesThey by Rudyard KiplingThe Eclipse by Selma LoagerlofThe Hungry stones by Rabindranath TagoreA Fisher Nest by Henrik PontoppidanThe call of life by Kunt HamsunOliver's Brag by Anatole FranceThe heart of the spring by W.B YeatsThe miraculous revenge by George Bernard ShawThe Sardinian fox by Grazia DeleddaTrue and Untrue by Endset SigridThe joker by Thomas MannVirga Vay and Allan Cedar by Sinclair LewisQuality by John GlasworthyThe Gentleman from San Franscisco by Ivan BuninThe tragedy of a character by Luigi PirandelloThe Quarrel by Pearl S BuckWithin and Without by Herman HesseThe life that went down into hell by Par LagerkvistA natural History of the dead by Ernest HemingwayThe guest by Albert CamusFlight by John Steinbeck
