#LiteraryFiction
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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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Books, Classic, Fictions
A Room Of One’s Own,(Reading Classic): Writer: virginia woolf
About the Author
One of the leading British writers and intellectual of the twentieth century Virginia Woolf was born in London on 25 January 1882. She began publishing her work to both general and critical acclaim in her early twenties and became associated with Bloomsbury Circle, an influential group of English modernist writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in early twentieth century. Best remembered for the lyrical quality of her prose Woolf wrote many novels and essays all bearing the modernist trends of the Circle. Her works have been translated in over 50 languages around the world. However, she was not very lucky in health matters and suffered from the bouts of mental illness throughout her life. She perished by drowning during one such attack on 28 March 1941.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
A Study In Scarlet: a Sherlock Holmes Novel ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Books, Classic, FictionsA Study In Scarlet: a Sherlock Holmes Novel ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Arthur Conan Doyle
About the Author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland from where he did his graduation in medicine in 1881. He had started writing and publishing short stories to some acclaim during his student life but it was after the publication of A Study in Scarlet, his first Sherlock Holmes work that he became widely famous. 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, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Philosphy, Political Science
Common Sense ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Thomas Paine
About the Author
Thomas Paine was a British-American philosopher, journalist, and a revolutionary writer. He was born on February 9, 1737, in Norfolk, Great Britain. In 1774, he emigrated to America. Paine is most famous for his revolutionary writings like Common Sense (1776), which is said to have been read by all the revolutionaries during the American Revolution. His other notable works include The American Crisis (1776-1783), and The Rights of Man (1791), The Age of Reason (1793- 1794), Agrarian Justice (1797).
Paine is regarded as an advocate of transnational human rights. He has also supported the land reforms and democratic principles. He was once imprisoned for speaking in favour of the French Revolution. Paine had a persuasive writing style. He strove for simplicity and clarity in his writings to reach a mass audience. Paine died on June 8, 1809, in New York, United States
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Books, Classic, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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 -
Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Classic, Fictions
Frankenstein,(Reading Classic)-Writer: Mary Shelley:
About the Author
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England, to Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist, and her husband William Godwin, the philosopher and political writer. She published her first poem Mounseer Nongtongpaw in 1807 through her father s company. She married poet Percy Shelley in 1816 and two years later published her first novel Frankenstein. She wrote several other books including Valpegra (1823), The Last Man (1826), and the autobiographical Lod ore (1835). Mary Shelley is often credited with being the first ever science fiction writer in English. She died on February 1, 1851.
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Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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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, 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, 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, Fictions
Khirki Bhar aasmaan (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, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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 -
Books, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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Books, Classic, Fictions
Mother,(Reading Classic): 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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Books, Classic, Fictions
Mrs. Dalloway,(Reading Classic): Writer: virginia woolf
About the Author
One of the leading British writers and intellectual of the twentieth century Virginia Woolf was born in London on 25 January 1882. She began publishing her work to both general and critical acclaim in her early twenties and became associated with Bloomsbury Circle, an influential group of English modernist writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in early twentieth century. Best remembered for the lyrical quality of her prose Woolf wrote many novels and essays all bearing the modernist trends of the Circle. Her works have been translated in over 50 languages around the world. However, she was not very lucky in health matters and suffered from the bouts of mental illness throughout her life. She perished by drowning during one such attack on 28 March 1941.
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Books, Fictions
Narbada (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, Fictions, Literary Fictions
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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