Literature
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Charles Dickens – David Copperfield: Macmillan
Rs. 525.00David Copperfield is the first novel of Charles Dickens. It is considered by many as one of the finest literary works ever produced. It narrates the story of its hero from his birth, unfolding his moral, emotional and intellectual growth. It was said to be the favorite novel of the world-famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
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Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre: Macmillan Edition
Rs. 560.00The orphaned Jane Eyre suffers under cruel guardians, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. But her plain appearance belies her indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage.
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Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe: Great Stories in Easy English
Rs. 630.00Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being.
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Longman Classics – Gulliverās Travels
Rs. 475.00Gulliverās Travels is the tale of Lemuel Gulliver as he voyages to the strange lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the kingdom of Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms.
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Longman Classics – Heidi
Rs. 750.00Heidi – The story of the little Swiss girl who lived in the mountains.
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Longman Classics – Oliver Twist
Rs. 750.00One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist. Its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society.
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Longman Classics – Robinson Crusoe
Rs. 750.00The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals.
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Penguin Classics – Metaphysical Poetry
Rs. 2,145.00A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics.
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Twelfth Night
Rs. 990.00Rs. 1,100.00Twelfth Night
Rs. 990.00The pricing reflects a reduction in consideration of minor blemishes on the product.
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William Shakespeare – Much ADo About Nothing
Rs. 901.00The pricing reflects a reduction in consideration of minor blemishes on the product.
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Aphra Behn – The Rover: Revised edition (New Mermaids)
Rs. 2,250.00The pricing reflects a reduction in consideration of minor blemishes on the product.
The RoverĀ is the most popular play by the first female professional writer in England, Aphra Behn. Set in Italy during the chaotic misrule of carnival time, the play explores issues of love, deception and the excesses of sexual passion.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Rs. 544.00The pricing reflects a reduction in consideration of minor blemishes on the product.
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Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles
Rs. 395.00Based on a local legend of a spectral hound that haunted Dartmoor in Devonshire, England, the story is set in the moors at Baskerville Hall and the nearby Grimpen Mire, and the action takes place mostly at night, when the terrifying hound howls for blood.
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Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities: Great Stories in Easy English
Rs. 610.00A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
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Charles Dickens – Hard Times: Penguin Classics
Rs. 750.00Dickens’s novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in crime. As their fortunes cross with those of a free-spirited circus girl and a victimized weaver, Gradgrind is forced to question everything he believes in.
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Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist: Great Stories in Easy English
Rs. 630.00The 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.
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Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre: Penguin Classics
Rs. 1,195.00A novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman’s search for equality and freedom on her own terms. Its heroine Jane endures loneliness and cruelty in the home of her heartless aunt and the cold charity of Lowood School. Her natural independence and spirit prove necessary when she takes a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of a shameful secret forces her to make a terrible choice.
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Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South
Rs. 895.00Elizabeth Gaskell’s compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. North and South depicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together.
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George Eliot – Silas Marner: Macmillan Edition
Rs. 450.00The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, the novel is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.
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George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss: Macmillan Edition
Rs. 350.00With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.
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Great Expectations: Great Stories in Easy English
Rs. 610.00The pricing reflects a reduction in consideration of minor blemishes on the product.
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
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Great Expectations: Macmillan Edition
Rs. 364.00Great Expectations is the story of an orphan Pip, the conflicts in his life, his fortunes and misfortunes and his journey to adulthood and wisdom.
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Kidnapped – Longman Classics
Rs. 475.00- ISBN-13: 9788177589832
- ISBN-10: 8177589830
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Pearson Education
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Longman Classics – The Prince and the Pauper
Rs. 475.00Young Prince Edward lived a life of luxury with servants to grant his every wish. Tom Canty spent his days begging on the streets and his nights in a hovel with his tyrannical father. When the two boys meet, a simple switch of clothing sets them on a path they’d never dreamed possible. The prince, mistaken for Tom, is forced to live a pauper’s life, while Tom unwillingly takes on the life of a prince. And in the end, each boy finds the king inside himself.
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Longman Classics – The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Rs. 380.00The pricing reflects a reduction in consideration of minor blemishes on the product.
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Longman Fiction – Silas Marner
Rs. 395.00An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century.
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Longman Fiction – Tales From Shakespeare
Rs. 395.00Tales from Shakespeare is an English children’s book intended “for the use of young persons” while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible.
