Literary Fictions
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Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
A Farewell To arms,Writer : Ernest Hemingway
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in the USA in 1899. He led a diverse life. He chose a career in journalism in his early life, participated in both World Wars, covered the Greco-Turkish and the Spanish Civil Wars, sailed the Caribbean and lived in four continents. During his stay in Paris, he became a part of the American expatriate circle of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound. F Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford. He made good use of his multifarious life experience in his writings and penned many great novels and short stories. In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Not many years later, he committed suicide in 1961.
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A Sultan In Palermo: Islam Quintet 4,Writer : Tariq Ali
About the Author
Tariq Ali (b. 1943) is an author, journalist, and filmmaker. He was born and raised in Lahore where he became politically active in his teens. He rose to prominence during the Vietnam War when he engaged in debates against the war with the likes of Henry Kissinger and Michael Stewart. Highly critical of the US and Israeli foreign policies, he has to his credit a number of nonfiction books on politics and has also long been associated with the New Left Review. He has also written many bestselling novels including Islam Quintet. Currently, he lives in England.
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An American Brat,Writer : Bapsi Sidhwa
About the Author
Born in Karachi and brought up in Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa, a graduate of Kinnaird College for Women, now lives in Houston. Sidhwa held a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe, and received the prestigious Lila Wallace Reader s Digest Writers Award. She has taught at Columbia University, the University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College and Southampton University. She has been awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan s highest national honour in the arts.
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Boys Will Be Boys,Writer : Sara Suleri
About the Author
Sara Suleri (1953 – ) is an academic, critic, and author. She grew up in Lahore and earned degrees from Kinnaird College and University of Punjab, and later a doctorate from Indiana University. She is a Professor Emeritus at Yale University and lives in the USA.
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Brave New World,Writer : Aldous Huxley
About the Author
Aldous Huxley was a renowned English writer, poet, playwright and philosopher. He was born in Surrey,England on 26 July 1894. Huxley published over 50 books during his lifetime — all to critical acclaim. Brave New World, a dystopian novel, is considered to be his best fictional work. Similarly, The Doors of Perception is regarded his finest non-fictional writing. Huxley spent last 25 years of his life in the USA. His life took a new turn there when he joined the Vedanta Society of Southern California, a spiritual organization. He, then,wrote extensively on spiritual topics too. He died of laryngeal cancer in the USA on 22 November 1963.
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Exile and the Kingdom,Writer : Albert Camus
About the Author
Justin BrienAlbert Camus was a French-Algerian writer, philosopher and journalist. He was born in Mondovi, French Algeria on November 7, 1913. Although not trained as a philosopher, he contributed towards the avant-garde twentieth-century philosophical ideas of Absurdism in the form of essays, novels, reviews and articles. He also became active in the resistance against the colonial French government and served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat from 1944 to 1947.
Camus established himself as a fiction writer with his three novels: The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956). His philosophical books The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), and The Rebel (1951) proved him to be a forceful thinker. Because of his formidable impact on the world of letters in the second half of the twentieth century, he was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in 1957 for illuminating the problems of the human conscience. He was only 44 years old at the time. He died in an automobile accident at the age of 46.SKU: 69477 -
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Exit West,Writer : Mohsin Hamid
About the Author
Mohsin Hamid is the author of five novels-Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Exit West and The Last White Man-and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations. His writing has been translated into forty languages, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema. Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls,Writer : Ernest Hemingway
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in the USA in 1899. He led a diverse life. He chose a career in journalism in his early life, participated in both World Wars, covered the Greco-Turkish and the Spanish Civil Wars, sailed the Caribbean and lived in four continents. During his stay in Paris, he became a part of the American expatriate circle of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound. F Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford. He made good use of his multifarious life experience in his writings and penned many great novels and short stories. In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Not many years later, he committed suicide in 1961.
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Grieving For Pigeons: Twelve Stories Of Lahore,Writer : Zubair Ahmad
Books, Fictions, Literary FictionsGrieving For Pigeons: Twelve Stories Of Lahore,Writer : Zubair Ahmad
About the Author
ZUBAIR AHMAD is the author of two poetry collections, three short story collections, a translation, and a collection of essays, all written in Punjabi. Two of his short story collections were finalists for the Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature in 2014 and 2020. Ile lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
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How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising asia,Writer : Mohsin Hamid
About the Author
Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels — Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West — and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations. His writing has been translated into forty languages, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema. Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.
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Ice-Candy Man,Writer : Bapsi Sidhwa
About the Author
Born in Karachi and brought up in Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa, a graduate of Kinnaird College for Women, now lives in Houston. Sidhwa held a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe, and received the prestigious Lila Wallace Reader s Digest Writers Award. She has taught at Columbia University, the University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College and Southampton University. She has been awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan s highest national honour in the arts.
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Moth Smoke,Writer : Mohsin Hamid
About the Author
Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels — Moth Smoke, The
Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia,
and Exit West — and a book of essays, Discontent and Its
Civilizations. His writing has been translated into forty languages,
featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema. Born in
Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest
in London, New York, and California.SKU: 17349 -
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Mother (Translation) (Readings Classics),Writer : Maxim Gorky
About the Author
Maxim Gorky (originally Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) was a Russian/Soviet author and political activist who lived between 1868 and 1936. A five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Gorky invented socialist realism and authored many memorable works including Twenty-six Men and a Girl which was a personal favourite of Vladimir Lenin. His magnum opus Mother remains a classic of revolutionary fiction.
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Night Of the Golden Butterfly: Islam Quintet 5,Writer : Tariq Ali
About the Author
Tariq Ali (b. 1943) is an author, journalist, and filmmaker. He was born and raised in Lahore where he became politically active in his teens. He rose to prominence during the Vietnam War when he engaged in debates against the war with the likes of Henry Kissinger and Michael Stewart. Highly critical of the US and Israeli foreign policies, he has to his credit a number of nonfiction books on politics and has also long been associated with the New Left Review. He has also written many bestselling novels including Islam Quintet. Currently, he lives in England.
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Of Mice and Men,Writer : John Steinbeck
About the Author
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was a 20th century American writer, celebrated alike for his fictional and non-fictional works. He
wrote a total of 16 novels many of which have now become classic literature. They include Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, The Pearl, East of Eden and The Red Pony. The Great Depression classic The Grapes of Wrath also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has sold a whopping 15 million copies. His other works include 2 collections of short stories and 6 non-fiction books. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.SKU: 95143 -
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Siddhartha: an Indian Tale(Literary Fiction),Writer : Hermann Hesse
Books, Fictions, Literary FictionsSiddhartha: an Indian Tale(Literary Fiction),Writer : Hermann Hesse
About the Author
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a German Swiss writer, poet and painter. One of the towering literary figures who helped shape the 20th century, Hesse wrote many great novels including Siddhartha, an allegorical tale on Buddha. A widely travelled man, he also had a deep knowledge on Christianity, Buddhism, philosophy and theosophy and these influences played an important role to give him a unique style which still remains unparalleled. Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
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The Bell Jar,Writer : Sylvia Plath
About the Author
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Later, she went on a Fulbright scholarship to study at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, England. There she met Ted Hughes at a party in February 1956 and they married in June of the same year. They lived in the United States and later in England and had two children. Plath spent most of her adult life in depression. She made many unsuccessful attempts at her life and finally committed suicide on February 11, 1963.
Plath was an exceptionally gifted poet and is frequently dubbed as one of the best woman poets of the western world. She won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems in 1982. She wrote fiction too and her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar is one of the most read novels today.
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The Bride,Writer : Bapsi Sidhwa
About the Author
Born in Karachi and brought up in Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa, a graduate of Kinnaird College for Women, now lives in Houston. Sidhwa held a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe, and received the prestigious Lila Wallace Reader s Digest Writers Award. She has taught at Columbia University, the University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College and Southampton University. She has been awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan s highest national honour in the arts.
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The Crow Eaters,Writer : Bapsi Sidhwa
About the Author
Born in Karachi and brought up in Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa, a graduate of Kinnaird College for Women, now lives in Houston. Sidhwa held a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe, and received the prestigious Lila Wallace Reader s Digest Writers Award. She has taught at Columbia University, the University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College and Southampton University. She has been awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan s highest national honour in the arts.
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The Fellowship Of the Ring: the Lord Of the Rings (Part 1),Writer : j.r.r. tolkien
Books, Fictions, Literary FictionsThe Fellowship Of the Ring: the Lord Of the Rings (Part 1),Writer : j.r.r. tolkien
About the Author
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished English writer and philologist, renowned for his profound impact on the fantasy genre. Best known for creating the captivating world of Middle-earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s literary prowess extends beyond storytelling. As a philologist, he exhibited unparalleled linguistic expertise, crafting entire languages like Elvish and Dwarvish with meticulous detail. His academic career at the University of Oxford, notably as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, further solidified his scholarly reputation. Tolkien’s work transcends generations, captivating readers with its intricate mythology, moral depth, and compelling characters. His legacy endures not only as a fantasy trailblazer but also as a luminary in the realms of language and literature, leaving an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
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The Haunting Of Hill House,Writer : shirley jackson
About the Author
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, The Lottery , was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.
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The Hobbit,Writer : j.r.r. tolkien
About the Author
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished English writer and philologist, renowned for his profound impact on the fantasy genre. Best known for creating the captivating world of Middle-earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien s literary prowess extends beyond storytelling. As a philologist, he exhibited unparalleled linguistic expertise, crafting entire languages like Elvish and Dwarvish with meticulous detail. His academic career at the University of Oxford, notably as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, further solidified his scholarly reputation. Tolkien s work transcends generations, captivating readers with its intricate mythology, moral depth, and compelling characters. His legacy endures not only as a fantasy trailblazer but also as a luminary in the realms of language and literature, leaving an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
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The Last White Man,Writer : Mohsin Hamid
About the Author
Mohsin Hamid is the author of five novels-Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Exit West and The Last White Man-and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations. His writing has been translated into forty languages, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema. Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California
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The Lord Of the Rings (3 Volume Box Set),Writer : j.r.r. tolkien
About the Author
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished English writer and philologist, renowned for his profound impact on the fantasy genre. Best known for creating the captivating world of Middle-earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s literary prowess extends beyond storytelling. As a philologist, he exhibited unparalleled linguistic expertise, crafting entire languages like Elvish and Dwarvish with meticulous detail. His academic career at the University of Oxford, notably as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, further solidified his scholarly reputation. Tolkien’s work transcends generations, captivating readers with its intricate mythology, moral depth, and compelling characters. His legacy endures not only as a fantasy trailblazer but also as a luminary in the realms of language and literature, leaving an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
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