For over a generation (c. 1935 - c. 1970) the Coffee House of Lahore was the greatest intellectual and literary powerhouse in North India and later in Pakistan . The book covers the likes of Nasir Kazmi, Habib Jalib, Abdus Salam, Ejaz Batalavi, Hamidullah Khan Burki, Altaf Gauhar, Tajammul Hussain a..
Eleven Minutes
is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose
first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age,
she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead
believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . ..
Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's
mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress
Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the worst of all. She is a big bully, who
thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey.
As for Matilda, ..
Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world.And
do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero. The other
children in this book are nasty little beasts, called: Augustus Gloop - a
great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet
Beauregarde ..
Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." Th..
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which..
Presented By Peter AveryMantiqu t-Tair is one of the masterpieces of Persian literature of which a complete and annotated translation into English is here presented for the first time as The Speech of the Birds . The text revolves around the decision of the birds of the world to seek out a king. The..
Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays th..
'In what may be
Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty
work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one
day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in
possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime ..
Changing misconceptions one hero at a time. This much needed children’s book empowers children with stories of 20 famous and little known Muslim heroes who were trailblazers. Winner of Fofky s Reader s Choice Middle Grade Book Award 2021. Do you know the story of the first nurse or the female founde..
“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying.” —The New York Review of BooksFrom the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S, the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan.To
what extent did America’s ..
Raskolnikov, a
destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St
Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He
imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher
purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a danger..
Virginia Woolf's Orlando
'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully
constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's
close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries,
the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabe..
Heralded as Virginia
Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a
woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied
with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she
is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As s..
The serene and maternal
Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and
assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly
trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs
a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensio..
Peri, a married, wealthy,
beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside
mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles
to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old Polaroid of
three young women and their university professor. A rel..
In her latest novel,
Elif Shafak spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of
the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul.
As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the
exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls fo..
Set within a once-stately apartment block in Istanbul, The Flea Palace
tells the story of Bonbon Palace, built by Russian noble émigré Pavel
Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign. It is now
sadly dilapidated, flea-infested, and home to ten very different
individuals a..
The book 'How to stop worrying & start living' suggest many ways to conquer worry and lead a wonderful life.The book mentions fundamental facts to know about worry and magic formula for solving worry-some situations.Psychologists & Doctors' view:-Worry can make even the most stolid person il..