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  • The Second Marriage Of Kunju Namboodiri And Other Classic Malayalam Stories

    by Mini Krishnan, Venugopal Menon ...
    Kunju Namboodiri wishes to marry a second time, but fate has other plans.A man visits the mythical city of Dwaraka in the first Malayalam fantasy tale.An abandoned infant is raised as a Muslim till her royal identity is discovered.An India almost unknown to us floods the pages of this significant series of short stories sourced from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.Ringing with ... Read more

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  • Hagakure: Selections: The Way Of The Samurai

    by Yamamoto ...
    It is a collection of philosophical notes written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo that offers both instruction and insight to the way of the Samurai. The concepts explained are a unique blend of Zen and Confucianism that was prevalent during Edo Era. It consists of detailed description on Japanese culture. An informative read! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    "It is not too much to compare Mr. Narayan to Chekhov." - The New York TimesThere is no better introduction to R.K. Narayan than this remarkable collection of stories celebrating work that spans five decades. Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered ... Read more

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  • Devdas and other Stories

    by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee ...
    The classic, heart-touching story of unrequited love of a man's fall from grace and his tragic end offers an insightful and compassionate portral of men and women in love. Devdas, written in early decades of the twentieth century, still captivates readers, and has been filmed several times - a testament to endurance and class. One of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's finest novels, it reveals the best ... Read more

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  • Waiting for a Visa: Experiences with Untouchability

    by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar ...
    "Here are some of the reminiscences drawn by Dr Ambedkar in his handwriting. The MSS traced in the collection of the People's Education Society were published by the society as a booklet on 19 March 1990— ed." (p. 661)It seems from internal evidence that Dr Ambedkar wrote this piece about eighteen years after Dr Ambedkar's return from America and Europe, which would put it in 1935 or 1936.Bhimrao ... Read more

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  • The Home and the World

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Translated by Surendranath Tagore ...
    Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Zen Koans: In Today's Language

    On the Spiritual Path, #3

    by David Tuffley ...
    Series Book 3 - On the Spiritual Path
    Koans are a useful sign-post on the path to enlightenment. They reveal abstract Truth that cannot be expressed logically through presenting the reader with a paradox that can only be solved by shifting one's perspective.The venerable Koans of the past, those that have been handed down through the generations are expressed in archaic language. If you cannot enter into that archaic language the koan ... Read more

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  • Selected Short Stories

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Translated by William Radice ...
    Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Varanasi

    by M.T.Vasudevan Nair ...
    Translated by N. Gopalakrishnan ...
    Women of character and strength, reveal his failings, one by one. And, Sudhakaran runs; from village to town, from town to city and city to city. The city now is Varanasi. This ancient city reminds him of all that it stands for—dharma, lust and death—and that there is no place where one can hide ones mistakes. Of all places one cannot hide in Varanasi, where memories hold the city together; and, ... Read more

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  • Ancient Japanese Tales

    by Richard Gordon Smith ...
    THE stories in this volume are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries which have been kept by me for some twenty years spent in travel and in sport in many lands—the last nine of them almost entirely in Japan, while collecting subjects of natural history for the British Museum; trawling and dredging in the Inland Sea, sometimes with success, sometimes without, but in the end contributing ... Read more

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  • The Short Stories Of Rabindranath Tagore - Vol 1

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    The Short Stories Of Rabindranath Tagore, Volume 1. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Home and The World

    Ghare Bhaire

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Set against the backdrop of the Partition of Bengal by the British in 1905, Home and the World is the story of a young liberal-minded zamindar Nikhilesh, his educated and sensitive wife Bimala, and Nikhilesh’s friend Sandip, a charismatic nationalist leader to whom Bimala finds herself attracted. A perceptive exposition of the difficulties surrounding women’s emancipation in pre-modern India, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD