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Long Sanskrit poem translated to English
Kumarasambhavam celebrates the love story of Siva and Parvati, whose passionate union results in the birth of their son, the young god Kumara. Beginning with a luminous description of the birth of Parvati, the poem proceeds in perfectly pitched sensuous detail through her courtship with Siva until the night of their wedding. It plays out their tale on the immense scale of supreme divinity, wherein the gods are viewed both as lovers and as cosmic principles. Composed in eight scintillating cantos, Kumarasambhavam continues to enchant readers centuries after it was first written. Hank Heifetz's sparkling translation brings to life the heady eroticism and sumptuous imagery of the original.
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.
"Preloved Prose: Nobel Tales from Secondhand Pages"
IncludesThey by Rudyard KiplingThe Eclipse by Selma LoagerlofThe Hungry stones by Rabindranath TagoreA Fisher Nest by Henrik PontoppidanThe call of life by Kunt HamsunOliver's Brag by Anatole FranceThe heart of the spring by W.B YeatsThe miraculous revenge by George Bernard ShawThe Sardinian fox by Grazia DeleddaTrue and Untrue by Endset SigridThe joker by Thomas MannVirga Vay and Allan Cedar by Sinclair LewisQuality by John GlasworthyThe Gentleman from San Franscisco by Ivan BuninThe tragedy of a character by Luigi PirandelloThe Quarrel by Pearl S BuckWithin and Without by Herman HesseThe life that went down into hell by Par LagerkvistA natural History of the dead by Ernest HemingwayThe guest by Albert CamusFlight by John Steinbeck
Three Thousand Stitches by Sudha Murty
So often, it's the simplest acts of courage that touch the lives of others. Sudha Murty-through the exceptional work of the Infosys Foundation as well as through her own youth, family life and travels-encounters many such stories . . . and she tells them here in her characteristically clear-eyed, warm-hearted way. She talks candidly about the meaningful impact of her work in the devadasi community, her trials and tribulations as the only female student in her engineering college and the unexpected and inspiring consequences of her father's kindness. From the quiet joy of discovering the reach of Indian cinema and the origins of Indian vegetables to the shallowness of judging others based on appearances, these are everyday struggles and victories, large and small.Unmasking both the beauty and ugliness of human nature, each of the real-life stories in this collection is reflective of a life lived with grace.