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The Selected Models Of American Fiction
R.N. Sarkar
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• Author(s): R.N. Sarkar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureAmerican literature is literary work produced in the United States and its preceding colonies. Historically, its literary tradition begins a...
View full detailsThe Select Documents on India-China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority (Vol. 2)
K.R. Gupta
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• Author(s): K.R. Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe book The Select Documents on India-China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority draws on evidence from intera...
View full detailsThe Select Documents on India-China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority (Vol. 1)
K.R. Gupta
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• Author(s): K.R. Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe book The Select Documents on India-China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority draws on evidence from intera...
View full detailsThe Select Documents on India-China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority (MULTI VOL SET-2 Vols.)
K.R. Gupta
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• Author(s): K.R. Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe book The Select Documents on India-China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority draws on evidence from intera...
View full detailsThe Satapatha Brahmana (Vol. 5)
J. Eggeling
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• Author(s): J. Eggeling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the world. These inclu...
View full detailsThe Satapatha Brahmana (Vol. 4)
J. Eggeling
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• Author(s): J. Eggeling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThese volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian re...
View full detailsThe Satapatha Brahmana (Vol. 2)
J. Eggeling
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• Author(s): J. Eggeling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThese volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian religions.
The Satapatha Brahmana (Vol. 1)
J. Eggeling
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• Author(s): J. Eggeling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThese volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian religions.
The Satapatha Brahmana (MULTI VOL SET 5 Vols.)
J. Eggeling
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• Author(s): J. Eggeling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and Philosophy
The Satapath Brahmana (Vol. 3)
J. Eggeling
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• Author(s): J. Eggeling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the world. These inclu...
View full detailsThe Saddharma-Pundarika Or The Lotus Of The True Laws
H. Kern
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• Author(s): H. Kern • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the world....
View full detailsThe Sacred Books Of China (Vol. 5)
James Legge
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• Author(s): James Legge • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the wo...
View full detailsThe Sacred Books Of China (Vol. 4)
James Legge
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• Author(s): James Legge • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the wo...
View full detailsThe Sacred Books Of China (Vol. 3)
James Legge
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• Author(s): James Legge • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and Philosophy
The Sacred Books Of China (Vol. 2)
James Legge
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• Author(s): James Legge • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the wo...
View full detailsThe Sacred Books Of China (Vol. 1)
James Legge
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• Author(s): James Legge • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the wo...
View full detailsThe Right To Information Act, 2005
Introduction by U.N. Gupta
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• Author(s): Introduction by U.N. Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Law and CriminologyThe Right to Information Act, 2005 is a landmark in the history of independent India. It serves as a tool in the hands of ci...
View full detailsThe Return Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 ...
View full detailsThe Rebellious Rani Of Belavadi And Other Stories
Basavaraj Naikar
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• Author(s): Basavaraj Naikar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionThe Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and Other Stories contains twelve stories dealing with various aspects of South Indian Life. The...
View full detailsThe Quran (Vol. 2)
E.H. Palmer
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• Author(s): E.H. Palmer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the wo...
View full detailsThe Quran (Vol. 1)
E.H. Palmer
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• Author(s): E.H. Palmer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe books in-this series popularly known as the Sacred Books of the East have gained world fame and are in great demand all over the world. These inclu...
View full detailsThe Post-Colonial Space: Writing the Self and the Nation
Nandini Sahu
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• Author(s): Nandini Sahu • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe 1980’s and after has created a typical post-modern anxiety with the advent of Salman Rushdie as an influential diaspora writer. This bo...
View full detailsThe Portrait Of A Lady
Henry James
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• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transpl...
View full detailsThe Politics Of Regionalism In South-Asia
B. Mohanan
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• Author(s): B. Mohanan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThis study is a modest attempt to apply the integration theory to the analysis of trends and shifts in interdependence (intra-and e...
View full detailsThe Politics of Food Security in India
M. Raghavan
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• Author(s): M. Raghavan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Bio-Science and AgricultureThe essays collected in this book deal with various aspects of food security in a developing country like India, which is house for...
View full detailsThe Political Economy Of The State In India
Ashutosh Kumar
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• Author(s): Ashutosh Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: EconomicsState as a problamatic has made a very strong return to the mainstream of social science literature in recent years. Theories on the relation of c...
View full detailsThe Police In India
M.B. Chande
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• Author(s): M.B. Chande • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Military and Police StudiesThe Police in India is an attempt to find out the realistic role of police functionaries, the Criminal Justice System, and the reci...
View full detailsThe Poetry of William Shakespeare
George Wyndham
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• Author(s): George Wyndham • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Poetry of William Shakespeare includes Shakespeare’s sonnets in complete along with his longer poems Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lu...
View full detailsThe Poetry Of Walt Whitman: New Critical Perspectives
Kanwar Dinesh Singh
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• Author(s): Kanwar Dinesh Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe present anthology of interpretative essays and research papers is a unique effort to approach the great nineteenth-century Ameri...
View full detailsThe Poetry Of Robert Frost And William Carlos William
Harihar Rath
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• Author(s): Harihar Rath • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThis book fulfils the difficult task of quickening, and elucidating, fortifying and enlarging the poetry of two important poets of our time...
View full detailsThe Poetry Of Robert Browning
Stopford A. Brooke
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• Author(s): Stopford A. Brooke • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Poetry of Robert Browning is a major study of Browning and his art. It marks an improvement over the earlier studies of Browning’...
View full detailsThe Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel
A. Raghu
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• Author(s): A. Raghu • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureNissim Ezekiel is probably the most famous living Indian poet in English. Displaying a dedication of heroic dimensions to his vocation, he has ...
View full detailsThe Poetry Of John Keats: Metaphysical Elements
Vishwanath Khali
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• Author(s): Vishwanath Khali • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureJohn Keats was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He be...
View full detailsThe Poetry Of John Keats: A Study in Erotic Sensibility
P.K. Singh
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• Author(s): P.K. Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book presents some of the unexplored facts about Keats’ poetry. Keats has been an important poet of romanticism. The poetic works of John...
View full detailsThe Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra
Bijay Kumar Das
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• Author(s): Bijay Kumar Das • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-dept...
View full detailsThe Poetry Of A.K. Ramanujan
M.K. Bhatnagar
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• Author(s): M.K. Bhatnagar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureA.K. Ramanujan represents the quintessential Indian English poet engaged in a relentless quest for self in the welter of tradition and co...
View full detailsThe Poetic Art Of Nissim Ezekiel
Sanjit Mishra
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• Author(s): Sanjit Mishra • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureNissim Ezekiel is one of those few men of letters who become legends in their life-time. A playwright of credentials, a critic of encyclop...
View full detailsThe Poems of Shakespeare
George Wyndham
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• Author(s): George Wyndham • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureBesides thirty-seven plays, two volumes of poetry and over 150 sonnets are also attributed to Shakespeare. The volumes of narrative poems...
View full detailsThe Plays Of T.S. Eliot
Subha Tiwari, Maneesha Tiwari
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• Author(s): Subha Tiwari | Maneesha Tiwari • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureAn established literary giant of all times, T.S. Eliot has attracted immense amount of critical attention. This book disc...
View full detailsThe Plays of Girish Karnad: a Study in Myths and Gender
Abhishek Kosta
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• Author(s): Abhishek Kosta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThis book is based on the myths in the plays of Girish Karnad. The four major plays Hayavadana, Yayati, Nagamandala and The Fire and the ...
View full detailsThe Plays Of Eugene O'Neill: A Critical Study
Monika Gupta
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• Author(s): Monika Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe present book, The Plays of Eugene O’Neill : A Critical Study, is a full-length study of Eugene O’Neill’s major plays. O’Neil, who was a...
View full detailsThe Plays Of Beckett And Albee: A Study in Imagery
Sandhya Rani Sahoo
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• Author(s): Sandhya Rani Sahoo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureEvery age has its definitive moments of literature. In the twentieth century, the staging of The Waiting for Godot was one such miles...
View full detailsThe Philosophy Of Guru Nanak (Vol. 2)
Ishar Singh
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• Author(s): Ishar Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophySardar Ishar Singh is a well-known authority on religion and philosophy. He has made a deep and elaborate study of all religions from a...
View full detailsThe Philosophy Of Guru Nanak (Vol. 1)
Ishar Singh
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• Author(s): Ishar Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophySardar Ishar Singh is a well-known authority on religion and philosophy. He has made a deep and elaborate study of all religions from a...
View full detailsThe Philosophy Of Guru Nanak (MULTI VOL SET-2 Vols.)
Ishar Singh
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• Author(s): Ishar Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophySardar Ishar Singh is a well-known authority on religion and philosophy. He has made a deep and elaborate study of all religions from a...
View full detailsThe Ph.D. Trajectory: A Step Towards a Successful Journey
M. Adithan
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• Author(s): M. Adithan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: General BooksThe Ph.D. Trajectory: A Step Towards a Successful Journey enumerates certain guidelines for the successful achievement of the goal of obtaining a ...
View full detailsThe Old Drama And The New
William Archer
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• Author(s): William Archer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Old Drama and the New (1923) is a major contribution of Archer’s matured scholarship. The book contains “with slight additions and re...
View full detailsThe Novels of William Golding
Indu Kulkarni
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• Author(s): Indu Kulkarni • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Novels of William Golding seeks to explore both the structures of Golding’s novels in some detail and their meanings in a sufficiently...
View full detailsThe Novels of Toni Morrison: Postmodernist Perspectives
Dr. Syed Wahaj Mohsin, Ms. Shaista Taskeen
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• Author(s): Dr. Syed Wahaj Mohsin | Ms. Shaista Taskeen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteraturePostmodernism and Afro-American literary discourse are closely entwined in the fiction of Toni Morrison, arg...
View full detailsThe Novels Of R.K. Narayan: A Critical Evaluation: A Critical Evaluation
P.K. Singh
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• Author(s): P.K. Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureR.K. Narayan is ranked among the greatest novelists of the world and certainly he is a great literary figure of English in India in 20th cent...
View full detailsThe Novels Of Mulk Raj Anand: A Study of His Hero
Neena Arora
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• Author(s): Neena Arora • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureDr. Mulk Raj Anand, through his rare prolificity, bold experimentation and aesthetic sensibility, has made immense contribution to Indian as...
View full detailsThe Novels of Mulk Raj Anand: a New Critical Spectrum
T.M.J. Indra Mohan
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• Author(s): T.M.J. Indra Mohan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Novels of Mulk Raj Anand: A New Critical Spectrum includes twelve insightful essays which not only shed new light on the old clas...
View full detailsThe Novels Of Ernest Hemingway: A Critical Study
Ishteyaque Shams
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• Author(s): Ishteyaque Shams • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe present book provides a critical analysis of all the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway, a twentieth century American nov...
View full detailsThe Novels of E.M. Forster
Avtar Singh
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• Author(s): Avtar Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Novels of E.M. Forster discusses the works of E.M. Forster in the context of ethical and aesthetic patterns particularly focusing on the...
View full detailsThe Novels Of D.H. Lawrence
R.N. Sarkar
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• Author(s): R.N. Sarkar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe present book is a grateful acknowledgement of the contribution of D.H. Lawrence in the arena of literature during the twentieth century....
View full detailsThe Novels Of C.P. Snow
A.K. Maniyar
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• Author(s): A.K. Maniyar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureC.P. Snow is a prominent figure in modern English fiction with his famous ‘Strangers and Brothers’ sequence of novels and other works. ‘The...
View full detailsThe Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya
Monika Gupta
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• Author(s): Monika Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya analyses the literary genre of Bhabani Bhattacharya through his six novels. Bhabani Bhattacharya (1906—1...
View full detailsThe Novels Of Arun Joshi: A Critical Study
Shankar Kumar
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• Author(s): Shankar Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe present book is an addition to the study of Arun Joshi’s novels in the context of the theme of the crisis of identity in the post-mode...
View full detailsThe Novels Of Arun Joshi: A Critical Study by M.K. Bhatnagar
M.K. Bhatnagar
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• Author(s): M.K. Bhatnagar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureArun Joshi’s fictional world is most strange. Peeling the multiple layers of artificiality, his protagonists seek to confront the mystery...
View full detailsThe Novels Of Arun Joshi: A Critical Evaluation
Birendra Pandey
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• Author(s): Birendra Pandey • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English Literature