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        e of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each...

      Details: The Prince (Penguin Classics) is a political theory or essay book written by Niccolo Machiavelli and translated by Tim Parks.This book is about princedoms. The author says that even though he has already written about republics elsewhere, this book is different. He treats republics as a...

        Details: Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors...

  Details: This omnibus edition features the ever-popular adventures of Satyajit Ray's enduring creation, the professional sleuth Pradosh C. Mitter (Feluda). In his escapades, Feluda is accompanied by his cousin Topshe and the bumbling crime writer Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu). From Jaisalmer to Simla, from the Ellora Caves to Varanasi, the...

      Details: Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud...

  Brand: Puffin Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 200 Release Date: 21-07-2022 model number: 9780241558355 Part Number: 9780241558355 Details: "On a hill above the valley there was a wood.In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole.In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs...

      Details: A boy who can recall his past life. A hint of hidden treasure. An adventure in the desert of Rajasthan . . .In one of their most hair-raising escapades ever, Feluda and Topshe set out for Rajasthan on the trail of the parapsychologist Dr Hajra and...

    Details: This book is a selection of the best of stories by Upendrakishore Roychoudhuri, and the most fascinating of his characters: Goopy and Bagha, dedicated but unsuccessful musicians who are cast out of their homes because their music drives their families and neighbours crazy; Tuntuni, the little bird;...

    Color: White Edition: Main Features: FABER & FABER It is durable and long lasting It ensures you get the best usage for a longer period Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 320 Release Date: 21-08-2000 model number: 170119 Part Number: 2342250 Details: 'A cult figure.' Guardian'A dark and brilliant...

  Details: 'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John Carey In his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of...

    Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 192 Release Date: 30-08-2012 Part Number: 19764220 Details: Offers a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island (Utopia) where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfillment is open to all. EAN: 9780141442327 Package Dimensions: 7.7 x...

    Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 448 Release Date: 04-07-1996 Part Number: 1644784 Details: Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with...

   

To the world Imran may appear to be a rich, handsome buffoon with his sports car, eccentric dress sense and bizarre sense of humour—but in reality he possesses a razor-sharp mind, and the agility, strength and quick wits of the perfect spy. His colleagues at the secret service make fun...

      Details: This is a translation of a historically important Bengali novel.Published in 1882, Chatterji's Anandamath helped create the atmosphere and the symbolism for the nationalist movement leading to Indian independence in 1947. It contains the famous hymn Vande Mataram ("I revere the Mother"), which has become India's...

      Features: Comes with secure packaging Gift item This product will be an excellent pick for you Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 352 Release Date: 01-12-2016 Part Number: Black and white throughout Details: Wise, often funny, sometimes heart-breaking, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran...

  Details: For Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. From sexual harassment charges against international figures to the challenge that caste politics poses to feminism, from feminist...

            Details: One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the...

      Number Of Pages: 448 Release Date: 04-02-2010 Details: Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. EAN: 9780099542254 Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x...

  Format: Import Number Of Pages: 256 Release Date: 06-12-2001 Part Number: 9780141186542 Details: 'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth has...

     

    Color: White Edition: Latest Edition Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Release Date: 01-03-2020 model number: 9780141185491 Part Number: 9780141185491 Details: Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense...

      Edition: New Features: Penguin Classics It ensures you get the best usage for a longer period It ensures you get the best usage for a longer period Binding: Paperback Format: Deckle Edge Number Of Pages: 200 Release Date: 14-09-2007 model number: 9780140455113 Part Number: 9780140455113 Details: The...

    Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 720 Release Date: 15-09-2020 Part Number: 39414582 Details: The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But since the long-popular classic Bertrand Russell's history of...

    Color: White Edition: Latest Edition Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 248 Release Date: 13-08-2014 Details: Regarded as the first major Indian novel in English, Kanthapura is the story of how Gandhi's struggle for Independence came to a casteist south Indian village. Young Moorthy, back from the city, brimming...

        Features: Ignited Minds, A great option for a Book Lover It comes with proper packaging It's a great choice for a book person Binding: Paperback Format: Notebook Number Of Pages: 208 Release Date: 01-12-2014 model number: 10661 Part Number: 10661 Details: Authored by the most influential...

     

            Details: Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in...

    Color: White Edition: Latest Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 272 Release Date: 01-12-2000 Part Number: 1651611 Details: A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the...

    Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 400 Release Date: 06-08-2020 Part Number: 9780241435144 Details: 'The most innovative and influential French thinker of the contemporary era' GuardianThis is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all...

    Color: White Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 752 Release Date: 04-09-2017 Part Number: 9780241316757 Details: Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism through an extended analysis of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In a series of dazzling insights, she explores the role of propaganda, the use of terror and the...

    Details: Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror.A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he...

Marie de France (fl late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. This book takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love.

      Features: Set ten years in the future, Frank Miller's BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS tells a story of a broken-down, veteran crime fighter trying to bring Gotham City back from the brink of destruction. Height: 10.20 in. Width: 6.60 in. Manufactured by: Random House Seller SKU: 201700024471...

    Color: White Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 96 Release Date: 25-05-2021 model number: 9780141187945 Part Number: 9780141187945 Details: A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in...

    Edition: Revised Binding: paperback Format: Deckle Edge Number Of Pages: 384 Release Date: 01-05-2004 model number: 9780140448993 Part Number: 9780140448993 Details: Through the letters between Abelard and Heloise, we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through...

    Binding: Paperback   Release Date: 13-12-2023 Details: A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he...

  Details: Defines the essential virtues for those at Court. This title includes a series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, in which his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion and gracefulness - as well as questions such as the duties...

    Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 720 Release Date: 01-12-2023 Part Number: 9780241633977 Details: 'A joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography... endlessly fascinating' Catherine Taylor, Financial Times'A tour de force of feminist thinking, spanning seven centuries and multiple continents' Jennifer Thomson, Review 31'The Penguin...

              Details: In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his timeNietzsche's Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declaration of war' on reason, psychology and theology, which combines highly charged personal attacks on...

    Details: From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the...

         

  Brand: J. Krishnamurti Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 168 Release Date: 31-08-2024 Details: On Living and Dying by J. Krishnamurti provides profound insights into the universal experiences of life and death. Through his timeless wisdom and philosophical reflections, Krishnamurti emphasizes that true change comes from the transformation of individual...

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    Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 488 Release Date: 01-10-2019 Details: When Gora had no name, caste, and religion, the circumstances gave him the name - goramohan, caste - Brahmin, and religion - Hindu. While he turned out to be a true advocate of Hinduism, the religion rejected him...

  Brand: FINGERPRINT with FP logo   Features: The Metamorphosis is a book that concerns itself with the themes of alienation, disillusionment and existentialism. Thus begins The Metamorphosis, cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century It ensures you get the best usage for a...

  Brand: FINGERPRINT with FP logo Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 304 Release Date: 01-05-2019 Details: Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell?s nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three inter-continental superstate that divided the world among...

  Brand: FINGERPRINT with FP logo Edition: First Edition Features: What happens when ill-treated farm animals gang up to throw out their lazy, corrupt and power-drunk rulers? Animal Farm is born. As humans get ousted from Manor Farm and animals take control, their utopian fantasy of running a farm on...