Beyond The City World Classics Unabridged

Author : SIR ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386423344
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the City (World Classics, Unabridged) written by SIR ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative unfolds in the placid English countryside. Focusing on the trap of lust and deceit, Doyle highlights the deep influence of trivial matters on our destinies. Revolving around three small groups of Victorian people who were crossing the boundaries of their middle-class lives, he mercilessly comments on the class-division in societies. Astonishing!

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9386834588
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities (World Classics, Unabridged) written by Charles Dickens and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9386834820
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey (World Classics, Unabridged) written by Homer and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness that were of highest value to the ancients and that remain ideals in out time.

Author : Anthony Hope
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9386834758
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of Zenda (World Classics, Unabridged) written by Anthony Hope and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9386834715
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iliad (World Classics, Unabridged) written by Homer and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Iliad centers on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilles's killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background. The Iliad is the first of the great tragedies.

Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0679645985
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 938683457X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist (World Classics, Unabridged) written by Charles Dickens and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9386834596
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ulysses (World Classics, Unabridged) written by James Joyce and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9386834731
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don Quixote (World Classics, Unabridged) written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality.

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9386834685
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dracula (World Classics, Unabridged) written by Bram Stoker and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathon Harker travels to Transylvania in Eastern Europe to do business with a mysterious man, Count Dracula. On his way to the count's castle he is warned by many, even provided with crucifixes, and almost attacked by wolves. To his surprise, upon reaching the castle, Harker is confronted by a professional and gentle man - that is up until he realises he has been made the count's prisoner. While he is under serious threat in the castle, strange things happen elsewhere - a Russian ship is wrecked and a woman is found with bite-marks on her neck. The great power and ambition of the count manifests itself in deaths and looming evils, causing a group, including the escaped Harker, to hunt Dracula down and kill him. Draculais an intense horror flavoured with the perils of seduction, desire and identity.