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Red Oleanders: A Drama in One Act
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRed Oleanders/Raktakarabī is one of the best plays of Tagore, the myriadminded and multifaceted genius; understandably ‘meanings’ hav...
View full detailsRelativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein
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• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Relativity as a concept was not new to physi...
View full detailsSaint Joan
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, a literary critic, an eminent showman, an intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre p...
View full detailsShe Stoops To Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith
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• Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureShe Stoops to Conquer is based on the two incidents of being the target of practical jokes, and being out on blind dates, creating a com...
View full detailsThe Alchemist
Ben Jonson
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• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Alchemist is considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy. It was first performed in 1610 by King’s Men. Samuel Taylor Coleridg...
View full detailsThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Frank Woodworth Pine
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• Author(s): Frank Woodworth Pine • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a captivating literary work that offers readers a unique glimpse into the life and mind of...
View full detailsThe Call of the Wild
Jack London
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• Author(s): Jack London • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBuck, a St Bernard-Scotch Shepherd mix, is kidnapped, stolen from his home in Santa Clara, California, and sold to serve as a sled dog. Set i...
View full detailsThe Essays
Francis Bacon
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• Author(s): Francis Bacon • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Essays, first published in 1597, contains essays written in a wide range of styles—from the plain and unadorned—to the epigrammatic and...
View full detailsThe Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
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• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952...
View full detailsThe Picture Of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after he...
View full detailsThe Pilgrim'S Progress
John Bunyan
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• Author(s): John Bunyan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Pilgrim’s Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of religious Eng...
View full detailsThe Prince
Nicolo Machiavelli
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• Author(s): Nicolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefu...
View full detailsThe Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhat is the fate of two unknowingly identical boys who exchange their lives? The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain is a historical satire s...
View full detailsThe Professor
Charlotte Bronte
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• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBefore Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a cla...
View full detailsThe Return Of The Native
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy’s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath ...
View full detailsThe Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
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• Author(s): Omar Khayyam • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title given by Edward FitzGerald to his translation of a selection of quatrains, originally written in Persi...
View full detailsThe School For Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• Author(s): Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe School for Scandal is a comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behavior and customs of upper classes through witty dialog...
View full detailsThe Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorit...
View full detailsThe Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
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• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway chronicles the temperaments and lifestyles of young, hard-drinking English and American expatriat...
View full detailsThe Travels Of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
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• Author(s): Marco Polo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMarco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book whic...
View full detailsThe Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn January 1895, when Henry James was in the depths of depression due to the failure of his play Guy Domville, the Archbishop of Canterbury t...
View full detailsThe Way Of The World
William Congreve
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• Author(s): William Congreve • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Way of the World is based around two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two to get married and receive Millamant’s full...
View full detailsTwelfth Night
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love, hilarious and heartbreaking, written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment fo...
View full detailsVolpone
Ben Jonson
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• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVolpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605–1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast f...
View full detailsThe Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her formidable elder sister Katherine is wedded off. The wily Petruchio plans a cour...
View full detailsThe Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore
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• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” The Home and the World (originally G...
View full detailsUncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“In the love of truth, and in the love of freedom, we shall yet be able to abolish slavery.” Set against the backdrop of slavery in...
View full detailsThe Man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas
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• Author(s): Alexandre Dumas • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.” In The Man in the Iron ...
View full detailsThe Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
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• Author(s): Johann David Wyss • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“A noble mind finds its purest joy in the accomplishment of its duty, and to that willingly sacrifices its inclination.” Johann David W...
View full detailsNirmala
Premchand
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• Author(s): Premchand • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureप्रेमचंद द्वारा रचित निर्मला उपन्यास एक पंद्रह वर्षीय लड़की जो बनारस के एक मध्यमवर्गीय परिवार से है, इस पर आधारित है। इस उपन्यास के जरिए प्रेमचंद ...
View full detailsThe Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Dale Carnegie
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• Author(s): Dale Carnegie • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism"The successful speaker, in a sense, is like an actor-he must get inside the character, know what he wants to say, an...
View full detailsCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Joseph A. Schumpeter
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• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter | Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Economics“As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist ...
View full detailsSri Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
Friedrich Max Muller
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• Author(s): Friedrich Max Muller • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyFriedrich Max Müller's Sri Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings is an intimate portrayal of the life and teachings of Sri Ramakris...
View full detailsIndia: What Can it Teach Us?
Friedrich Max Muller
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• Author(s): Friedrich Max Muller • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIndia: What can it Teach Us? is a captivating compilation of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a distinguished schola...
View full detailsAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
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• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume is a sem...
View full detailsCrime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sad...
View full detailsPatanjali's Yoga Sutras
Swami Vivekananda
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• Author(s): Swami Vivekananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga"The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body i...
View full detailsThe Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion." The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche explores the origi...
View full detailsThe Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the hear...
View full details25 Greatest Speeches of Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
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• Author(s): Swami Vivekananda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.” 25 Greatest Speeches of Vivek...
View full detailsAs a Man Thinketh
James Allen
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• Author(s): James Allen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"As he thinks, so he is, as he continues to think, so he remains." In As a Man Thinketh, James Allen explores the profound connection ...
View full detailsBeyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good-the atavism of an old ide...
View full detailsMeditations
Marcus Aurelius
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• Author(s): Marcus Aurelius • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, first published in 1558, is...
View full detailsPratigya
Premchand
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• Author(s): Premchand • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureप्रेमचंद का उपन्यास प्रतिज्ञा भारतीय समाज की गहराई में छिपे नैतिकता, सुधारवाद और स्त्री-उत्थान जैसे विषयों पर आधारित है। इस कहानी के मुख्य पात्र ...
View full detailsTao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
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• Author(s): Lao Tzu • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.” Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is one of the most influential texts in Easte...
View full detailsThe German Ideology
Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Engels
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• Author(s): Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels | Friedrich Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology“Consciousness does not determine life, but life determines consciousness.” The German Ideology by ...
View full detailsThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
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• Author(s): Victor Hugo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, on...
View full detailsThe Trial
Franz Kafka
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• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” The Trial by Franz Kafka, first published posthumously ...
View full detailsWhite Fang
Jack london
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• Author(s): Jack london • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The Wild still lingered in him, and the wolf in him merely slept." White Fang, published in 1906 by Jack London, is an enthralling adventur...
View full detailsThe Complete Book of Yoga
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• Author(s): Swami Vivekananda • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga • BISAC: philosophy Swami Vivekananda's The Complete Book of Yoga is an essen...
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