#Books
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Books, Classic, Fictions
Heart Of Darkness ,(Reading Classic): Writer: joseph conrad
About the Author
Paul B. Armstrong is Professor of English and former Dean of the College at Brown University. He was previously a professor and a dean at the University of Oregon and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has also taught at the University of Copenhagen, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Virginia, and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. He is the author of How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art; Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form; Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation; The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford; and The Phenomenology of Henry James. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of E. M. Forster’s Howards End and of the fourth and fifth Norton Critical Editions of Heart of Darkness.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
Heidi ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Johanna Spyri
About the Author
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was a Swiss short story writer and novelist famous for her writings for both adults and children. She was born at Hazel, Switzerland. After getting married to a lawyer, she shifted to Zurich. She missed her rural life and liked it more than her urban surroundings and, therefore, she started celebrating the countryside in her work. In 1884, her husband and her only child died. This tragedy turned her towards philanthropy. She continued both her creative and humanitarian work till her death. Her services were honored in 1951 and 2009 by the issuance, respectively, of a postage stamp and a coin bearing her picture.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
His Last Bow,(Reading Classic): Writer: Arthur Conan Doyle
About the Author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland from where did his graduation in Medicine in 1881. He had started writing and publishing short stories to some acclaim during his student life but he became widely famous only after the publication of A Study in Scarlet, his first Sherlock Holmes work. Arguably the best crime fiction character ever, Sherlock Holmes practically made Doyle immortal as a writer. Featuring Holmes he wrote 4 novels and 56 short stories. Doyle was a prolific writer and in addition to his Holmes oeuvre he wrote many other novels and short stories. Among them The Lost World is another great work of fiction
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Books
History Of Western Philosophy,Writer : Bertrand russell
About the Author
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and historian. He started his writing career in 1896. In 1910, he discovered and resolved Russell’s Paradox in mathematics. He popularised philosophy by delivering many lectures and broadcasts on BBC. His published works span over 100 books on analytical philosophy, history, and mathematics. He was one of the leading opponents of World War I, Israel’s aggression against the Middle East, and the United States’ genocide in Vietnam. He also made a cameo appearance in an Indian anti-war feature film Aman. Because of his commitment to nonviolence, he faced many troubles: a six-month imprisonment for publicly lecturing against the United States’ interference in the affairs of the United Kingdom, a fine for publishing an anti- war pamphlet, and his dismissal from Trinity College. Initially, Russell was in favour of socialism but after his visit to the Soviet Union and meeting with Vladimir Lenin, he returned unimpressed and expressed his opposition to the utilitarian and anti-aesthetic stance of Bolshevism. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 for championing humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought. Russell had an agile mind and his insights into world problems will be remembered for centuries to come. In the prologue to his autobiography, he summed up the passions that drove him thus: ‘the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.’ He stayed politically active till the end of his life
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Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Self Help, Self Improvement
How To Stop Worrying & Start Living,Writer : Dale Carnegie
About the Author
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was a celebrated American writer and speaker. Like many a great man he was also born lowly and had to climb a twisted way up before he rose to the vantage point of a public speaker, a position that helped him clearly see a whole new way of looking into and reforming day-to-day human affairs, be they personal or interactive. He wrote many books including the million-copy bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), the mother of all self help books, and its worthy companion How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948). Together, they have and continue to change the lives of millions around the world.
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Books, Self Help, Self Improvement
How To Win Friends & Influence People (the Original 1936 Edition),Writer : Dale Carnegie
Books, Self Help, Self ImprovementHow To Win Friends & Influence People (the Original 1936 Edition),Writer : Dale Carnegie
About the Author
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was a celebrated American writer and speaker. Like many a great man he was also born lowly and had to climb a twisted way up before he rose to the vantage point of a public speaker, a position that helped him clearly see a whole new way of looking into and reforming day-to-day human affairs, be they personal or interactive. He wrote many books including the million-copy bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), the mother of all self help books, and its worthy companion How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948). Together, they have and continue to change the lives of millions around the world.
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Books, Classic, Fictions, Philosphy
Human, all Too Human ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Friedrich Nietzsche
Books, Classic, Fictions, PhilosphyHuman, all Too Human ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Friedrich Nietzsche
About the Author
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and a cultural critic. He was born on October 15, 1844, in Rocken, Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia. His works criticise the traditional European morality, religious values as well as conventional philosophical ideas associated with modernity. He is often seen as a predecessor to late modern thinkers like Marx and Freud, because of his psychological analyses of false consciousness. He proposed many original theories positing an alternative morality and ideas which would bring forth a cultural renewal. His notable works include The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872), The Gay Science (1882), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–5), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), Twilight of the Idols (1888) and The Wagner Case (1888). In 1889, Nietzsche suffered a mental breakdown. Eleven years later, he died on August 25, 1900, in Weimar, German Empire.
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Biography books, Books
HUMSAFRON KE DARMIYAN By Shamim Hanfi
About the Author:
Shamim Hanafi (17 November 1938 – 6 May 2021) was an Indian Urdu critic, dramatist and a proponent of modernist movement in Urdu literature. His books on modernism include The Philosophical Foundation of Modernism and New Poetic Tradition. He was associated with the Jamia Millia Islamia to the extent of becoming a professor emeritus.
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Books, Islam, Religion
Ibn Khaldun On Sufism: Remedy For the Questioner In Search Of answers,Writer : Yumna Ozer
Books, Islam, ReligionIbn Khaldun On Sufism: Remedy For the Questioner In Search Of answers,Writer : Yumna Ozer
About the Author
Ibn Khaldun on Sufism: Remedy for the Questioner in Search of Answers is the first ever translation into English of this treatise-Shifa al-Sa il li-Tahdhib al-Masa il.
Though Ibn Khaldun is renowned for his seminal works, the Muqaddima and the Thar, which are considered milestones in the fields of medieval sociology and the philosophy of history, little is known about his religious and spiritual life. In her introduction to Ibn Khaldun on Sufism, Dr Yumna Özer seeks to restore Ibn Khaldun and his work to the context from which his theories arose, both in intellectual and religious terms; she also draws a vivid painting of Sufism in the fourteenth century and rethinks Ibn Khaldun s relationship with Sufism. The translation itself addresses the dichotomies or synergies between religious law and the Sufi path, the roles played by jurists, and that played by Sufis, and the particular position of the Sufi shaykh or spiritual master. Ibn Khaldun on Sufism: Remedy for the Questioner in Search of Answers provides a rare glimpse into the world of the fourteenth century legists and Sufis and into Ibn Khaldun s own spiritual life and thought.SKU: 76339 -
Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Fictions
Ik Tukra Dhoop Ka (Short Stories) Writer Asad Muhammad Khan
About the Author:
Asad Muhammad Khan is a Pakistani novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet. He is author of five Urdu story books. He wrote songs, plays and features for Radio Pakistan and PTV. He received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz Award in 2009.
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Books, Islam, Religion
Islam and the Destiny Of Man,Writer : Gai Eaton
About the Author
CHARLES LE GAI EATON was born in Switzerland and educated at Charter house and King s College, Cambridge. He worked for many years as a teacher and journalist in Jamaica and Egypt (where he embraced Islam in 1951) before joining the British Diplomatic Service. He later served as a consultant to the Islamic Cultural Centre in London. Among his other titles are King of the Castle and Remembering God.
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Books, Fictions
Jahangard Ki Wapsi (Urdu) (Odyssey) by Muhammad Salim Ur Rehman
About the Author:
Muhammad Saleem ur Rehman, the poet, translator and fiction writer, is better known for having the longest stint as the editor of the Urdu literary journal Sawera, spanning at least five decades. In doing so, he also mentored generations of writers, including some senior Urdu writers of today.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
Jane Eyre ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Charlotte Bronte
About the Author
The eldest in the famous literary trio of Brontë sisters, Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 in Thornton, England. Having unsuccessfully tried her luck along with her sisters at running a school, Charlotte turned to writing and gave English literature such fictional masterpieces as Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette. She also composed poetry like her sisters. They published their poetry as Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, their pseudonyms, in 1846. Charlotte married in 1854. She was pregnant when she died probably of hyperemesis gravidarum on 31 March 1855.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
Journey To the Centre Of the Earth ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Jules Verne
About the Author
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer, poet and playwright. He is sometimes dubbed as the Father of Science Fiction and had a great influence on many latter day science fiction writers and scientists. Apart from other works, he wrote Voyages extraordinary, an adventure/science fiction series of over 50 novels many of which are still highly popular among both adults and children. He is the second most translated writer in the world.
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Books, Philosphy
Jung Ka Fun by Sun Tzu
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Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thought
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Books, Classic, Fictions
Just So Stories,(Reading Classic): Writer: Rudyard Kipling
About the Author
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 30 December 1865. Having spent his early childhood in India Kipling went to study in England but returned to India at the age of 18 and joined as an assistant editor the Civil and Military Gazette, a small newspaper in Lahore. It was during his Lahore days that Kipling published his first book. He drew inspiration for most of his writings including the famous Jungle Books from India. He was a writer par excellence and wrote both prose and verse for adults and children alike prolifically. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Kipling died in London on 18 January 1936.
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