The Best Of Tenida

Author : Aparna Chaudhuri
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351186342
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Tenida written by Aparna Chaudhuri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humorous escapades of Narayan Gangopadhyay’s immortal character and his ragtag bunch of friends, now in English The leader of a gang of four, Tenida is a brash, loud-mouthed fellow with a large heart and a gargantuan appetite. Along with the quick-witted Kyabla, the Bangladeshi-accented Habul and the cowardly Pela, Tenida falls headlong into one misadventure after the other, that is, when he is not telling tall tales of his own heroism. Full of wit and old-world charm, The Best of Tenida is dotted with vignettes of life in yesteryear Calcutta. Featuring five of Narayan Gangopadhyay’s best-known short stories and his timeless novella Charmurti, this English translation introduces one of the most beloved figures in Bengali children’s literature to a wider audience.

Author : Narayan Gangopadhyay
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780143333012
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puffin Classics: the Best of Tenida written by Narayan Gangopadhyay and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humorous escapades of Narayan Gangopadhyay's immortal character and his ragtag bunch of friends, now in English. The leader of a gang of four, Tenida is a brash, loud-mouthed fellow with a large heart and a gargantuan appetite. Along with the quick-witted Kyabla, the Bangladeshi-accented Habul and the cowardly Pela, Tenida falls headlong into one misadventure after the other, that is, when he is not telling tall tales of his own heroism. Full of wit and old-world charm, The Best of Tenida is dotted with vignettes of life in yesteryear Calcutta. Featuring five of Narayan Gangopadhyay's best-known short stories and his timeless novella Charmurti, this English translation introduces one of the most beloved figures in Bengali children's literature to a wider audience.

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143066552
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calcutta Chromosome written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.

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Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.G5/5 ( download)

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792549
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times. Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."

Author : Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184756968
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhythm of Riddles written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saradindu Bandyopadyay's immortal detective Byomkesh Bakshi has enjoyed immense popularity for several decades. From being a household name in the Calcutta of 1930s, when he first created, to a popular face on TV in the 1990s, Byomkesh along with his friend-cum-foil Ajit is perhaps the best-loved of India's literary detectives. This collection brings together three of his classic whodunnits. From a murder in a boarding house with too many suspects to a mystery with a supernatural twist, and then busting a black - marketeering ring in rural bengal, these stories take the super sleuth to different locales on his quest for truth, and bring out his ingenuity and astuteness. Translated into English for the first time by award-winning translator Arunava Sinha, the breathless pace and thrilling plots of these action-packed adventures will win Byomkesh a new genertion of admirers.

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307345394
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Most Royal written by Jean Plaidy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One powerful king. Two tragic queens. In the court of Henry VIII, it was dangerous for a woman to catch the king’s eye. Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were cousins. Both were beautiful women, though very different in temperament. They each learned that Henry’s passion was all-consuming–and fickle. Sophisticated Anne Boleyn, raised in the decadent court of France, was in love with another man when King Henry claimed her as his own. Being his mistress gave her a position of power; being his queen put her life in jeopardy. Her younger cousin, Catherine Howard, was only fifteen when she was swept into the circle of King Henry. Her innocence attracted him, but a past mistake was destined to haunt her. Painted in the rich colors of Tudor England, Murder Most Royal is a page-turning journey into the lives of two of the wives of the tempestuous Henry VIII. Look for the Reading Group Guide at the back of this book. Also available as an ebook.

Author : Taraknath Ganguli
Publisher : Tara Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788186211526
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4 Heroes & a Green Beard written by Taraknath Ganguli and published by Tara Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comical adventures of the Four Heroes continues when they meet a dotty nature-lover with a green beard.

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378094
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strange and Sublime Address written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri’s elegant debut novel, in which an Indian ten-year-old experiences the entirely distinct experiences of life in Bombay, where his family lives, and Calcutta, where he visits relatives during his summer vacation. Ten-year-old Sandeep lives in a high-rise in Bombay, where his father has an important job that keeps him busy all the time. Come summer, Sandeep and his mother travel to Calcutta to spend time with his aunt, his self-absorbed and improvident uncle, and Abhi, his favorite cousin. His relatives’ house is shadowy and rambling; the vast city around it ramshackle and alluring. They fascinate curious, observant Sandeep. Days pass; the heat grows; the rains come; the visit ends. In the winter, Sandeep and his family return to Calcutta—and encounter an unexpected turn of events. But Sandeep has arrived at a new sense of things, an understanding of how the marvelous inheres in the mundane, that will be his, we feel, for good. At once delicate and incisive, A Strange and Sublime Address succeeds in both immersing us in a boy’s inner world and depicting that boy and his world from outside. It was Amit Chaudhuri’s first book, the work of a novelist whose striking originality of conception would subsequently become ever more clear. The three decades since the publication of A Strange and Sublime Address have only confirmed its appeal and poetry.

Author : Taraknath Ganguli
Publisher : Tara Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788186211342
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4 Heroes and a Haunted House written by Taraknath Ganguli and published by Tara Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four friends spend their holidays in a remote bungalow, and are plunged into a series of absurd adventures. Writen by popular Bengali children's writer Narayan Gangopadhyay, this is an eccentric book which parodies the form of the detective novel. Swati Bhattacharjee's excellent translation makes this much-loved Bengali story available in English for the first time.