Fiction

  Details: “It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”A cruel act of fate is disappointing a young heart which has the softest hopes from life. Born impoverished and orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist begins his life in...

  Details: “Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?”Set in the thriving countryside of England, this is the story of a vibrant young girl, Tess, who was leading a life of considerable agency, freedom, happiness, and aspirations. However, everything changed when her...

   

    Details: “Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty ― it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life ― froze it.”It’s the story of a family, like every family, and the many dents and complex love that make up relationships. Follow the Ramsay family over a...

  Details: "I’ve found that there is always some beauty left―in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.’Anne begins her diary entries at the age of thirteen in June 1942, recording all her experiences until August 1944. All people have the right to freedom, but Anne wasn’t...

  Brand: Penguin Select Classics Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 288 Release Date: 30-07-2024 Details: ‘Right is right and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.’Along the Mississippi River, in the pre-civil war days, lived a mischievous and...

  B Details: “I realize now that there’s a lot to be said for traveling if you want to see something new.”When Phileas Fogg, a wealthy gentleman, impulsively bets that he can travel the globe in just eighty days, he sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events. Leaving behind...

  Brand: Penguin Select Classics Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 496 Release Date: 11-04-2024 Details: “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”Pip, a blacksmith’s apprentice goes from humble beginnings in the marshes of Kent to the bustling streets...

  Brand: Penguin Select Classics Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 456 Release Date: 30-07-2024 Details: ‘The sea is everything…Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.’Fascinated with the wonders of the sea, Professor Pierre...

    Details: “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”A reflective Ismael is the lens through which maniacal Ahab’s quest comes to life. Ahab is the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, and Moby Dick, the giant white...

  Details: “We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can’t do without.”Nostalgia is a true gift of life, the ability to relive warm and happy moments through memory is a true joy. Three Men in a Boat, is a...

  Details: ‘Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth.’In a thrilling adventure follow the intrepid Professor Otto Lidenbrock, his young nephew Axel, and their Icelandic guide Hans Bjelke on an...

  Brand: Penguin Select Classics Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 80 Release Date: 10-10-2024 Details: “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”We all play certain roles in life, at work or with family, which require us to suppress how we truly feel to perform our duties.Set in London, the...

  Details: “It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”The most glittering orbs have the sharpest edges, and the most shinning lives the darkest truths.Anthony Patch is a Harvard-educated, aspiring socialite. Gloria Gilbert is a beautiful but narcissistic dancer living in New...

    Details: “Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than…justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.”What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? Does a dream about death, swimming, seeing a snake or flying symbolize something?First published...

  Details: "Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”What happens when paramount self-belief leads to self-destruction. Raskolnikov’s is a student who believes he has the responsibility of using evil means to bring good to people; thereby committing murders.As Raskolnikov is chased by...

    Details: “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”Anna Karenina, a beautiful, sensuous, and rebellious young woman, is unhappily married to the wealthy but cold aristocrat Alexey Alexandrovitch. Restless in...

    Details: ‘Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.’A collection of twelve riveting detective stories featuring the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend and chronicler, Dr. Watson. Set in Victorian London, the story engages readers with Holmes’s extraordinary problem...

  Details: “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”Catherine Morland is a seventeen-year-old romantic at heart, fond of reading Gothic novels. One weekend she is invited by friends to...

  Details: Uncover the hidden forces that shape your everyday actions with The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, a groundbreaking work by the legendary psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.In this timeless classic, Freud introduces the revolutionary idea that our behaviours, decisions, and even mistakes are often driven by unconscious desires, thoughts,...

  Brand: Penguin Select Classics Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 400 Release Date: 11-04-2024 Details: "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”The storming of the Bastille, the drop of the guillotine blade―this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in...

    Details: “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the beloved Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. A true classic of world literature that left the readers mesmerised, and in 1913 earned...

he highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”In this philosophical masterpiece, Zarathustra a fictional sage descends from the mountains to share his wisdom with humanity. He challenges conventional thought and explores profound themes of self-overcoming, the will to power, and the nature of existence.The character of Zarathustra serves...

    Details: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient Chinese treatise...

  Details: “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”Set in ancient India, a young and curious Siddhartha moves to the wilderness on a quest to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence...

    Details: Meet Sherlock Holmes-eccentric genius and brilliant detective. Using the science of deduction, Holmes cracks casesthat baffle even the police. When the famous sleuth moves into rooms at 221B Baker Street in London with Dr John Watson, a medic returned from the war front, the two begin a...

    Details: Welcome to the roaring twenties, where money, debauchery, and dancing go hand-in-hand. It is the summer of 1922,and the enigmatic millionaire, Jay Gatsby, is in love. He has everything he could ever want, except the one thing that always remains out of reach-the beautiful socialite Daisy Buchanan,...

  Details: “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”It’s the 20th century and Virginia Woolf is invited to speak to a roomful of young writers at a few colleges....

  Brand: Penguin Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 180 Release Date: 11-04-2024 Details: “With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.”Life is made up of countless mundane moments with seldom anything special happening. Yet, it is the reflections...

  Details: What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study...

  Details: The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there...

  Details: Revised paperback edition‘Does full justice to each facet of Dr Ambedkar’s extraordinary life’—Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2024‘A great book about the greatest modern intellectual of India.’ Kancha IlaiahBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human...

  Details: A fully updated edition of the bestselling guide to the mammals of IndiaCovering the rich diversity of mammal species in India, from tigers, elephants, rhinoceros and whales to primates, rodents and bats, Indian Mammals is field-ready, illustrated and comprehensive in approach. Rigorously researched, Indian Mammals reflects a lifetime's...

  Brand: Penguin Edition: Illustrated edition Binding: Paperback Format: Illustrated Number Of Pages: 360 Release Date: 05-05-2006 Details: Pradeep Krishen is a nature-lover and in his book Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide, he has made a list of more than 250 species of trees found in Delhi. This book...

e Uma has failed to outgrow her childhood home, with its bittersweet treats of puri-alu and barfi. Overprotected and starved for a life, she is smothered by her overbearing parents, successful sister Aruna and Arun, the family's disappointment of a son. Across the world in Massachusetts, where Arun has gone...

    Details: कादम्बरी एक फिल्मी पटकथा है, जो स्वयं अमृता प्रीतम ने लिखी है। एचके वर्मा द्वारा निर्देशित इस फिल्म में उस्ताद विलायत ख़ाँ के संगीत दिया था। यह एक प्रेम कहानी है। बिना किसी परिचित कोण के एक प्रेम कहानी। ताज़ा और यथार्थवादी। यह फिल्म अमृता प्रीतम के...

    Details: In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has...

    Details: 'Life affirming, triumphant and tragic . . . masterfully told. . . but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been...

    Details: The Secret History is a murder mystery that goes in the reverse order. In the very first chapter, the narrator Richard Papen confesses that he is partly responsible for the death of his college mate Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran. The author does not give away a lot of...

    Details: Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is...

    Details: OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDEOVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK14 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR TV SERIESGUARDIAN 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY58 WEEKS ON THE BOOKSELLER’S TOP 20 ORIGINAL FICTION BESTSELLERS LISTSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 201543...

  Details: The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the...

  Brand: Penguin Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 400 Release Date: 02-03-2023 Part Number: 9781804990926 Details: THE FUNNY AND INSPIRING, MULTI-AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD, now a major Apple TV+ series starring Brie LarsonA Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, New York Times,...

  Details: Originally published in 1954, William Golding's Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times.A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. At first they revel in the freedom and celebrate the absence of...

  Details: Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition. All three steps are being taken around the world...

  Details: Amartya Sen throws the concept of justice under the spot-light by establishing The Idea of Justice as a reason to ponder about how the society is being unjust. It talks about what can be done to make society more fair and the need to realize that tomorrow never...

    Details: The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types.His argument could hardly be more topical....

  Details: The dashing Prince Virendra of Naugarh is madly in love with the breathtakingly beautiful Princess Chandrakanta of Vijaygarh. But there are obstacles galore in the paths of the lovers. There are evil ministers with sinister magicians at their beck and call; enemy kings only too happy to go...