The Writer And The World Essays by V.S. Naipaul This wonderful collection of essays by V.S. Naipul features pieces taken from his earlier books - "The Overcrowded Barracoon", "The Return of Eva Peron" and "Finding the Centre" - and also includes several previously uncollected essays. Concentrating mainly on V.S. Naipaul's writings about India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, it is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to the writer's extraordinary world.
'How few writers there are, if any, who share his sense of mission and moral authority, who have his willingness to learn and to travel and his miraculous gift of language. Is there no one who could persuade him to go on one last journey. "Observer". 'As these essays lavishly demonstrate, he is a true citizen of the world, and he richly deserves the Nobel prize he was awarded last year'. - "Scotland on Sunday".
A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul makes for the best company ever.With its collection of real-life,humorous,inspiring and stirring tales,it is not just a peek into the private moments of our contributing authors,but a helping hand to guide you through life,knowing there are people out there with key experiences to match your own.
You will find yourself celebrating your relations,victories and strengths, and ruminating-sometimes with a belated grin-over disapointments and failings.Most importantly,you will consider possible resolves through our stories.
With timeless wisdom about love,perspective,overcoming obstacles,being the change and growing,each of the 101 stories in this title will stir your emotions,encourage you to raise your consciousness and reaffirm your commitment to live life to the fullest.Read More...Hide Pages: 293
Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez The first nonfiction work by acclaimed novelist Julia Alvarez--twenty-four personal essays on the experience of immigration and the writing life.
The rich and revealing essays in Something to Declare offer Julia Alvarez's dual meditations on coming to America and becoming a writer. In the first section, "Customs," Alvarez relates how she and her family fled the Dominican Republic and its oppressive dictator, Rafael Trujillo, settling in New York City in the 1960s. Here Julia begins a love affair with the English language under the tutelage of the aptly named Sister Maria Generosa. Part Two--"Declarations"--celebrates Alvarez's enduring passion for the writing life. From the valentine to mythic storyteller Scheherazade that is "First Muse," to a description of Alvarez's itinerant life as a struggling poet, teacher, and writer in "Have Typewriter, Will Travel," to the sage and witty advice of "Ten of My Writing Commandments," Alvarez generously shares her influences and inspirations with aspiring writers everywhere.Read More...Hide Pages: 300
The Classic Stories
Edgar Allan Poe's Ms. Found in a Bottle, Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Sherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods, Stephen Vincent Benét's By the Waters of Babylon
The Great Writers
Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers
The Little-Known Masterpieces
Edith Wharton's The Dilettante, Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman, Charles M. Flandrau?s A Dead Issue, James Reid Parker?s The Archimandrite's NieceRead More...Hide Pages: 496
Punchtantra by Gautam Bhatia Inspired by James Finn Garner's Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, best-selling author Gautam Bhatia takes the men, women and animals of the Panchatantra and relocates them in contemporary India with its newly acquired notions of political correctness.So we have teh fiercely vocal lesbian feminist.Yajnadatta,who leaves her husband for awoman,the expatriate dog Chitranga who flees racial persecution in the West,and a mongoose with an Oedipus complex,armed with a 45 Colt.As these characters engage with the burning issues of the day-unemployment,opression environmental pollution,sexual incompatibility-they lay bare the hilarious adsurdities of our muddled world.Read More...Hide Pages: 215
Best Loved Indian Stories of the Century ( Vol-I) by Indira Srinivasan Best Loved Indian Stories brings together tales from different part of the country that have enthralled readers of all ages. This volume, the first of two, represents the best English stories written by Indian in the twentieth century.
In these twenty stories you will meet unforgettable characters like the inimitable Muni with his two goats in R.K. Narayan-s classic -A Horse and Two Goats- the pious Vishnu in Khushwant Singh-s -The Mark of Vishnu- the innocent basket-seller with the enchanting eyes in Ruskin Bond-s unforgettable -Night Train at Deoli- the dying grandmother with her eccentric demands in Githa Hariharan-s -Remains of the Feast- and many other man and women who have touched our lives over the generations.Read More...Hide Pages: 236
Ruskin Bond?s stories are predominantly set in the beautiful hill country of Garhwal where he has made his home for the last twenty-five years. Some of these stories present people who, consciously or otherwise, need each other: people in love or in need of love, the awkward adolescent and the timid lover. Some are gently satirical studies about village and small-town braggarts and petty officials.
Several others mourn the gradual erosion of the beauty of the hills (and the gentle people who live in them) with the coming of the steel and dust and worries of modern civilization. All the stories are rewarding for their compassionate portrayal of love, loss, accomplishment, pain and struggle.Read More...Hide Pages: 245
Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories by Manjula Padmanabhan An American Sati,a coscientious calligrapher and a malevolent twenty-first century teenager are a few characters you can expect to meet within these twelve stories.Set in locales as diverse as an orbiting mansion,a public bus and a rural backwater,they are nevertheless bound a common theme of transformation.The catalyst are small: a rare lizard,a blocked artery,a gas balloon, a blood stain.But the results include psychic renewal and a murder conviction!
Written with wry humour and narrative tension,these dozen tales are beguiling,disturbing and thought-provoking.Read More...Hide Pages: 264
Kleptomania: Ten Stories by Manjula Padmanabhan In this brilliantly versatile collection of stories from the award-winning author of Harvest, the reader will encounter a range of themes, from murder mystery to science fiction. The author's vision of a post-apocalypse future is dark, but rendered with a rich vein of irony and humour that allows us to roller-coast with her into a world where air and water and the earth itself take on new shades of meaning. Then there are the here-and-now stories of bodies turning up in backyards, of love betrayed and sexuality discovered, of bitter awakenings and upbeat endings. Intelligent, opinionated, and playful, this is a collection that defies limitations of time, space, and imagination to conjure up new morality tales for our time.Read More...Hide Pages: 201
Sex, Scotch & Scholarship by Khushwant Singh In this anthology you can look forward to some talk of sex,a little of scotch and much scholarship.the collection attempts to mirror the author's concerns and passions-his love of nature,his anguish over the situation in Punjab,his interest in religions of the world and his scholarly research of the one into which he was born,Sikhism.
The highlight of this book,however,is the expansive,autobiographical opening piece written in Khushwant's characteristically candid style and perhaps the most complete self-portrait he has yet painted.Read More...Hide Pages: 224
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