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About The Author
Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka in 1943. He moved to England in 1954, and in 1962 moved to Canada where he has lived ever since. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and began teaching at York University in Toronto in 1971. He published a volume of memoir, entitled Running in the Family, in 1983. His collections of poetry include The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems (1981), which won the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1971. His fourth novel The English Patient (1992) was joint winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1996. Michael was also nominated for the Man Booker International Prize in 2007. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Linda Spalding, with whom he edits the literary journal Brick. 
About The Book
Set in 1945, The English Patient explores the lives of four very disparate war torn people, a young woman and three men, who take refuge in a damaged villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. In an upstairs room lies the badly burned English patient, alive but unable to move. His extraordinary adventures and turbulent love affair in the North African desert before the war provide the focus around which the vivid tales of his companions revolve. His very presence will forever change the destiny of those around him.

About The Book A man who broke the bonds of slavery to become an advocate for his people. Historically acknowledged as one of America's most power handful persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a time when such-behavior from a black man was unheard-of. While his stance on the separation of the races would become controversial, he worked tirelessly to convince blacks to work together as one people in order to improve their lives and the future at their race. Up from Slavery is the dramatic autobiography account of how one man stood fast against the social and ideological bias prevalent in his day.It tells the story of Washington's unique American experience-struggle that the began as a slave and never gave up. Spanning from his fight for education through his founding of the world-renowned Tuskegee Institute. Washington's Up from Slavery remains one of the most significant and defining works in American Literature. Up from Slavery features in the reading-list recommended bythe CBSE. Table of Contents Preface Introduction by Walter H. Page Biography of Booker T. Washington Summary & Theme of Up From Slavery Character-Sketch of Up From Slavery Chronology of Booker T. Washington's Life A Slave Among Slaves Boyhood Days The Struggle for an Education Helping Others The Reconstruction Period Black Race and Red Race Early Days at Tuskegee Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen-House Anxious Days and Sleepless Night's A Harder Task Than Making Bricks without Straw Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie on Them Raising Money Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech The Atlanta Exposition Address The Secret of Success in Public Speaking Europe Last Words

Details Of:  My Life With A SoulIsbn: 9789382025238Book: My Life With A SoulAuthor: Suraj JangidPublisher: Pigeon BooksPublish Date: 7/4/1905Binding: Paperback

About The Book Murder, mystery, mistaken identity, madness, bigamy, adultery: These were the special ingredients that made the sensation novel so delectable to the Victorian palate. Readers who devoured Lady Audley's Secret were thrilled and frightened by its inversion of the ideal Victorian heroine. Lady Audley looks like the angel-in-the-house ideal of Victorian womanhood-she is blonde, fragile, and childlike-but her behavior is distinctly villainous. At a time when Victorian women were beginning to rebel against their limited roles as wives and mothers, novels such as Lady Audley's Secret spoke to their secret longings and fantasies. Genteel women readers, slaving away as governesses in other people's families, could share the fantasy of poor Lucy, suddenly made a lady by her marriage to Sir Michael. Part detective story, part domestic drama, Lady Audley's Secret became a runaway bestseller of its era. Nearly a century and a half since it was first published, Lady Audley's Secret has lost none of its ability to disturb and captivate readers. Annotation "If I could plot like Miss Braddon, I should be the greatest novelist that ever lived."--Thackeray Editorial Reviews Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) became a best-selling author in 1862 with Lady Audley's Secret. The twenty-seven-year-old's route to fame led from a broken home, through a clandestine seven years as an actress, to a bigamous relationship with the publisher who first revealed Lady Audley to the world as a serial in one of his magazines. Surviving scandal and critical scorn, Braddon became one of the most celebrated and respected authors of the nineteenth century.

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Contains tales translated by AE Johnson. Eight of the twelve tales are written by Charles Perrault (1628-1703). The last story, "Beauty and the Beast", again not by Perrault (it was penned by Mme Leprince de Beaumont, 1711-1781), has a similarity of style and celebrity.

About The Book Tor Classics are affordable-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of The Swiss Family Robinson includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R. L. Fisher. The sea has been in a violent rage for many days. As the winds howled and the seas churned and boiled, the ship rolled and heaved in the gigantic waves. The crew and passengers grew more and more terrified. Suddenly—as if from the blow of a mighty fist—the ship broke apart.... All were lost. All but a pastor, his wife, and four sons: the Swiss Family Robinson. Shipwrecked! Abandoned on a deserted tropical island with little more than a few simple tools—and each other—the family must use its intelligence, courage, ingenuity, and humor to survive. And each day brings yet another adventure...and danger!. Annotation Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life. Editorial Reviews The illustrated edition of the classic story of the shipwrecked Robinson family and their adventures on a desert island in the South Seas. First published in 1812, it still remains a beloved tale of true adventure with an engaging mix of moral and practical lessons about survival and learning to live in harmony with others and with oneself. Author Johann David Wyss based the story--which began as a set of tales that he told his four sons in the early 19th century--on the classic tale of shipwreck and survival, "Robinson Crusoe." In narrating a tale about the struggle to survive and the values found in cooperating with others, Wyss reveals the wonders of the island as well--the flora and fauna that make this a truly magical story for all time. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white.

About The Book Words worth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles....

About The BookWordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.

About The Book Arthur Rackham has contributed to Mother Goose as an author.Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the most respected and popular artists of children's literature in the twentieth century. He has contributed to over 50 titles, including Grimm's Fairy Tales, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Rip Van Winkle

About The Book Aesop was born as a slave in Ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. During his life, a large number of fables were attributed to him, as he was a great storyteller. This collection Aesop's Fable's includes famous stories we all are familiar with, such as The Tortoise and the Hare, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Ant and the Grasshopper. These tales are meant to have moral lessons for children. Most of Aesop's Fables also feature animals as main characters, further making the stories beloved by children of all ages. Annotation A collection of Aesop's fables. Editorial Reviews In her first book, German artist Drr uses pencil and charcoal to illustrate a particularly imaginative selection of 17 classic fables. Although many entries are familiar, Thundershower makes room for more unusual choices. In "A Dress for the Moon,'' for example, the moon's mother complains of the moon's ever-changing size, which makes her "the despair of the very best of dressmakers!'' The retelling are graceful and, true to Aesop, do not tack on any aphoristic morals. With its sophisticated design, however, the volume lacks child appeal. Sketchy and airy, the art is more conceptual than purely narrative; the duotone presentation may obscure the visual transitions between many of the spreads. Color remains the province of the type, printed in a distractingly bright, tomato red that seems almost to vibrate against the stark white paper. All ages.

About The Book England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

About The Book In this riveting novel, beloved international bestselling author Deepak Chopra captures the spellbinding life story of the great and often misunderstood Prophet. Islam was born in a cradle of tribal turmoil, and the arrival of one God who vanquished hundreds of ancient Arabian gods changed the world forever. God reached down into the life of Muhammad, a settled husband and father, and spoke through him. Muhammad's divine and dangerous task was to convince his people to renounce their ancestral idols and superstitious veneration of multiple gods. From the first encounter, God did not leave Muhammad alone, his life was no longer his own, and with each revelation the creation of a new way of life formed and a religion was born. Muhammad didn't see himself as the son of God or as one who achieved cosmic enlightenment. His relatives and neighbors didn't part the way when he walked down the parched dirt streets of Mecca. There was no mark of divinity. Orphaned by age six, Muhammad grew up surrounded by dozens of cousins and extended family to become a trusted merchant. Muhammad saw himself as an ordinary man and that is why what happened to him is so extraordinary. Rooted in historical detail, "Muhammad" brings the Prophet to life through the eyes of those around him. A Christian hermit mystic foretells a special destiny, a pugnacious Bedouin wet nurse raises him in the desert, and a religious rebel in Mecca secretly takes the young orphan under his spiritual wing. Each voice, each chapter brings Muhammad and the creation of Islam into a new light. The angel Gabriel demands Muhammad to recite, the first convert risks his life to protect his newfound faith, and Muhammad's life is not a myth but an incredible true and surprisingly unknown story of a man and a moment that sparked a worldwide transformation.

About The BookThrough a subtle interleaving of past and present, the overlapping narrative of Chinnery`s Hotel traverse two continents and three historical periods. After spending nearly four uneasy decades in her ancestral England and accompained by her dead sister`s daughter Camilla, Grace returns to the cantonment township of Mhow where she had spent a much-cossetted childhood and youth in her parent`s establishment called Chinnery`s Hotel.Chinnery`s hotel exist in a moment of time and in its garden gone to seed history`s glimpses and rumour continue to intersect long after its guests have checked out, never to return. About Author : Jaisinh Birjepatil was born in Baroda & educated in England. He teaches English Literature at Marlboro College in Vermont (U.S.A). He has also taught at the University of Baroda and Brown University(U.S.A). His poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies on both sides of the atlantic. Contents : Undersong Ghostly Playbacks Shipwreck Who only England Know The Flying Dutchman The Grand Tour The Dak Bunglow ------etc