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Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna narrates the story of eternally optimistic Pollyanna who goes to live with her strict aunt Polly after being orphaned. Despite her challenging situation, Pollyanna introduces her "Glad Game," finding joy in even the m...

"The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot." Swami Vivekananda's interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras delves into ancient wisdom, encapsulating the s...

"The successful speaker, in a sense, is like an actor-he must get inside the character, know what he wants to say, and believe in what he's saying." ...

“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 in 1925, is a haunting exploration of bureaucracy, guilt and the oppressive nature of authority. The novel...

India: What can it Teach Us? is a captivating compilation of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a distinguished scholar of the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1883, this book consists of seven enlightening lectures where he de...

“A noble mind finds its purest joy in the accomplishment of its duty, and to that willingly sacrifices its inclination.” Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson, a thrilling adventure of survival and ingenuity, unfolds in the uncharted wilde...

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays: First and Second Series presents a collection of his most influential writings, originally published in the 1840s. These essays explore profound themes such as self-reliance, nature, individuality, and the inner spiri...

It would be appropriate to call this collection of short-stories Mumbai Dreams, as the seeds for most of the stories were sown there. These short stories strike an interesting balance between the characters and their experiences and vividly expres...

बरसों से हंसी-मजाक की कई पुस्तकें और 500 से अधिक हास्य और व्यंग्य से जुड़े प्रेरणादायक लेख लिखने के बाद विश्व प्रसिद्ध हास्य लेखक जौली अंकल ने यह महसूस किया कि हास्य का आंनद तो हर कोई लेना चाहता है लेकिन इसके गुणों की जानकारी के अभाव में उसका लाभ प...

Do What Matters Most: Simplify Your Overload skillfully plows through the current 95 per cent chaos of nonsense and information overload that is overwhelming us all and brings before us the real five per cent truths, rewards and other things that ...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote tragedies until about 1608, includin...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote tragedies until about 1608, includin...

"The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's two supreme masterpieces, one of the two questionable classics of the first order that he added to the English novel, and in its own way, it is like Nostromo in the subtle and triumphant complexity of its art" ...

The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behavior and customs of upper classes through witty dialogue and an intricate plot with comic situations that expose various shortcomings of the characters. In general, the chara...

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transplanted into the European environment. Upon her father's death, the high-minded heroine Isabela Archer is vi...

The Pilgrim’s Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature. It has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never gone out of print. Bu...

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that the English language possesses. Framed around a sea voyage from Bombay to London, the action concentrates on ...

Collection of (1) Lady Chatterley's Lover : "Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the emotions of a lonely woman, Constance Chatterley, trapped in a s...

Buck, 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 in Canada in the backdrop of the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a captivating literary work that offers readers a unique glimpse into the life and mind of one of America's most influential Founding Fathers. Through a series of letters to his son, Franklin recounts his ...

The Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour and delicacy of perception, the author depicts the reaction of different American types to the European en...

Silas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge of theft that Silas Marner did not commit, he leaves his small religious community and takes refuge in the a...

She Stoops to Conquer is based on the two incidents of being the target of practical jokes, and being out on blind dates, creating a complicated, convoluted plot based on miscommunication and mistaken identities. Wealthy countryman, Mr. Hardcastle...

Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the late seventeenth century. If it is on one level a Puritan’s...

Lord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a great novelist. With this book Joseph Conrad set the style for a whole class of literature—the novel of the outc...

There is no denying the fact that when Bin Laden speaks, the people across the world, particularly the Western media, usually ask—Is he really alive? Where is he? What did he say? A curiosity to know more about him yet remains. The present book ai...

Great Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally considered to be one of the best masterpieces of Dickens. Pip, an orphan, is brought up by his cranky older sister a...

Despite significant advances in Medical Science, man today suffers from several diseases, majority of them being caused by liver and abdominal disorders. Abdominal problems like heartburn, gas formation, constipation and loose bowels are commonly ...

Black Beauty translated from the original Equine, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, first published on 24th November 1877, is Anna Sewell’s only novel, composed in the last years of her life between 1871 and 1877 while confined to ...

A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift’s first major and his most masterly work. It presents a satire of religious excess. When it was written, politics and religion were so closely linked in England, that the religious and political aspects of the satir...

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion." The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche explores the origins of Greek tragedy and its profound impact on Western culture. Published in 1872, this philosophical work examines the...

"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume is a seminal work of philosophy, published in 1948, that delves into the nature of human cognition, perception and the li...

प्रेमचंद 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 ने समाज की नारी के प्रति सोच, दहेज प्रथाए नारी की पुरुष पर निर्भरता और अनमोल विवाह जैसे महत्वपूर्ण मुद...

“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 Ghare-Baire), written by Rabindranath Tagore, is a profound exploration of nationalism, identity and human conflict...

In Booms and Depressions, economist Irving Fisher provides a groundbreaking analysis of the cyclical nature of economic activity, focusing on the causes and consequences of financial booms and subsequent depressions. First published in 1932, Fishe...

The book portrays the saga of gory incidents which shook Mumbai in the wake of the students from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh having gone there to take the railway examination, were severely assaulted by the local goons, and sent back home without taki...

Creation of universe has been an enigma since time immemorial. Matter is made of energy. E=mc2 is an established scientific fact. Energy, in essence, is an expression of natural forces. Natural forces recognised so far are electromagnetic force—a ...

Since the most devastating attack on September 11, 2001, when 19 Al Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and drove two into the Twin Towers in New York city and one into the Pentagon, Osama Bin Laden has been the “most wanted man” and e...

Collection of (1) The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architectural studies. His characters are primitive and exhibit all the passions, hates, loves and jealousie...

Collection of (1) Pride And Prejudice; In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where, in spite of many hurdles, eventually love triumphs over 'pride' an...

Loop the Loop, also known as Slitherlink, Fences, Takegaki, Ouroboros and Dotty Dilemma, is a logic puzzle. It is played on a rectangular lattice of dots. Some of the squares formed by the dots have numbers inside them. The objective is to connect...

Shlok, a lanky teenager and a daydreamer, doesn’t want much from his life. He dreams about making his parents happy and winning the affection of a neighbourhood sweetheart, Natasha. Though both are poles apart, their interests bring them close. To...

Teenagers are young boys and girls in the age group of 13 to 19. It is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development occurring between puberty and adulthood. The period of adolescence is most closely associated with the teenage ye...

Yoga is a well-established ancient Indian system that not only keeps our body, mind and soul healthy but also provides relief in various diseases, particularly in women and enhances sex power of both men and women. People are becoming more and mor...

When Time Management Fails is based on more than 300 interviews with exceptionally efficient managers. By using examples from typical office settings, anecdotes and excerpts from over 50 interviews, the book shows how some managers create more val...

India and China are the largest developing countries with more than one-third of the world’s population. They are rivals in the quest for economic, military and political power and influence. Post 1950, relations between India and China have been ...

The Wind in the Willows is a book of linked animal tales that began as a series of bedtime stories and was published in 1908. It is beautifully written with evocative descriptions of the countryside interspersed with exciting adventures and became...

In January 1895, when Henry James was in the depths of depression due to the failure of his play Guy Domville, the Archbishop of Canterbury told him the story that became The Turn of the Screw which first appeared in serial format in Collier’s Wee...

Lucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her formidable elder sister Katherine is wedded off. The wily Petruchio plans a courtship with tough Katherine, who deems herself beyond the institute of marriage. Petruchio wins Katherine in a sum ...

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, conveying how their rural existence is gradually but profoundly changed by the influx of industry and urbanism. But it is far more ...

The George Bernard Shaw Collection (Peacock Classics) is a remarkable compilation of seven of Shaw’s most influential plays. Known for his wit, social criticism, and sharp dialogue, Shaw remains one of the most celebrated playwrights in English li...

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes. The story relates the adventures of three boys m...

Talking sex has been an entertaining topic since ages and a social taboo too. Tribal clans of Indian subcontinent have been enriched with the custom of GHOTUL where elders used to provide basic information about sex to their youngsters. With the a...

विद्वान लोग अक्सर समझाते हैं कि उतार चढ़ाव का दूसरा नाम ही जीवन है। लेकिन जो लोग अपने जीवन में संतुलन बनाए रखने की तकनीक को समझ कर उस पर अमल करना सीख लेते हैं वे हिम्मत और साहस से दुनिया के सामने कामयाबी की नई मिसाल कायम कर देते हैं। एक बात तो हम स...

A great dramatist, a literary critic, an eminent showman, an intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre personality of the 20th century. He was a philosopher, thinker and an ardent advocate of women’s rights. He was awa...

Although for much of the world Osama Bin Laden is the public face of contemporary Islamist fundamentalist terrorism, he is a hero for a significant Islamist fundamentalist minority for his violent resistance to Western encroachment on Islamic soci...

This book titled Pearls of Wisdom is a collection of selected adages, sublime messages, watchwords, lessons in life, proverbs and religious truths bequeathed to posterity by eminent wise men of yore. These sayings projecting general truths, gather...

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623. By means of "noting" (wh...

Major Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw’s works which mocks religious hypocrisy and the complicity of society in its own ills. When the play was first produced at the R...

Love’s Labour’s Lost, in five-acts, was written sometime between 1588 and 1597, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page suggesting that an earlier quarto had been lost. The 1598 quarto was printed seemingly from an authorial w...