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INDIAN CONTROVERSIES
Ayodhya / Babri Mosque / Islam and Iconoclasm / Rushdie / Freedom of Speech / The Versed Themselves / Jinnah / Sir Syed Ahmed Khan / Terrorism / Kashmir / Article 370 / Punjab / Incitement / Appeasement / Restoring Dialogue / Jamia Milia Islamia / ‘Rushdie The Second’ / Bible / Literal Interrancy / Papal Infallability / Milleniarism / Fundamentalism / Taking offence / True Secularism / Reason / Evidence / Abuse / Law / Consitution / Enforcement / Fundamental Duties / Rights / Shah Bano / Shariah / Quran / Jesus / Mohammed / Kafirs / People of the Book / Sole Spokesmen /
ISBN: 8171677746
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FRANKENSTEIN
This “Norton Critical Edition” of “Frankenstein” contains the 1818 first edition text. Only the obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The book also includes writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John William Polidori, enabling the reader to place the novel in its historical context. Six 19th century responses to the novel illustrate contemporary reactions, whilst 12 modern critical essays cover the different aspects (psychoanalytic, mythic, feminist) of the work.
ISBN: 0393964582
Publisher: VIVA BOOKS -
TOM JONES
This revised Norton Critical Edition is based upon the fourth edition of “Tom Jones”, the last to be published during Fielding’s lifetime. Contemporary reactions to the novel’s publication and 12 critical essays are included.
ISBN: 0393965945
Publisher: VIVA BOOKS -
BASIC WRITINGS OF EXISTENTIALISM
Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly taught works of existentialism. Contributors include Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ralph Ellison, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.
ISBN: 9780375759895
Publisher: THE MODERN LIBRARY -
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
A classic novel set on the solemn moors of northern England, Wuthering Heights is the unforgettable story of Heathcliff and Catherine, whose doomed love torments them in a tempest of madness, vengeance, and redemption. Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece that remains as compelling today as it was when it was first published in 1847.
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.
ISBN: 9780743487641
Publisher: POCKET BOOKS -
MESSENGER
Strange changes are taking place in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on its welcome to new strangers, Village will soon be closed to all outsiders. As one of the few people able to travel through the dangerous Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Villages closing and try to convince Seers daughter to return with him before its too late. But Forest has become hostile to Matty as well, and he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand.
ISBN: 9780544340657
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AMERICAN GOD
American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and international bestseller Neil Gaiman, comes vividly to life in a major new TV series on Amazon Prime Video starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning and Gillian Anderson.
‘Gaiman is a treasure-house of story and we are lucky to have him’ Stephen King.
If you are to survive, you must believe.
Shadow Moon has served his time. But hours before his release from prison, his beloved wife is killed in a freak accident. Dazed, he boards a plane home where he meets the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who professes both to know Shadow and to be king of America.
Together they embark on a profoundly strange road trip across the USA, encountering a kaleidoscopic cast of characters along the way. Yet all around them a storm threatens to break.
The war has already begun, an epic struggle for the very soul of America, and Shadow is standing squarely in its path.
ISBN: 9781472249081
Publisher: HEADLINE -
RUNAWAY
This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about-women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children-become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own.
ISBN: 9781400077915
Publisher: VINATGE INTERNATIONAL -
LIVING TO TELL THE TALE
No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction.
Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.
ISBN: 9781400034543
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS -
BELOVED
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.
ISBN: 9781400033416
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS -
A HERO OF OUR TIME
In its adventurous happenings-its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues-A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and ’30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin-the archetypal Russian antihero-Lermontov’s novel looks forward to the subsequent glories of a Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.
ISBN: 9780812970760
Publisher: THE MODERN LIBRARY -
THE NAME OF THE ROSE
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.
William collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night. A spectacular popular and critical success, The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages.
‘Whether you’re into Sherlock Holmes, Montaillou, Borges, the nouvelle critique, the Rule of St. Benedict, metaphysics, library design, or The Thing from the Crypt, you’ll love it’ Sunday Times
ISBN: 9780099466031
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS -
BELOVED
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.
ISBN: 9781784877217
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS -
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THE ESSENTIAL RUMI
A Comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion. The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers.
ISBN: 9780062312747
Publisher: HARPER ONE -
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TWO PLAYS CHALACHITTA CHANCHARI LAKSHMAN’S SHAKTISHAIL
ISBN: 8126018593
Publisher: SAHITYA AKADEMI -
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WILT ON HIGH
Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in ‘The Pig in a Poke’ with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he’s guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is…well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt’s talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place — in the middle.
ISBN: 0099466481
Publisher: ARROW BOOKS₨ 2,157 -
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