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Lalita has grown up practically as a daughter in her wealthy neighbor's house, and everyone assumes she will marry their son Shekhar one day, until a foolish debt her father…

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Devdas and Parvati grow up as childhood playmates and fall in love as naturally as breathing, but when his family refuses to accept a match beneath their status, Parvati is…

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Betrayed by his first wife, King Shahryar resolves to marry a new bride each night and have her executed by dawn, until the vizier's daughter Shahrazad volunteers herself and begins…

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Shahrazad's nightly reprieve continues in this second volume of Burton's landmark translation, as her tales grow ever more elaborate: voyages to islands that turn out to be sleeping sea monsters,…

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Binodini, a young widow, arrives to live with the family of her late husband's closest friend, and her sharp mind, wit, and quiet magnetism unsettle everyone around her, most of…

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Raised as the son of a devout, orthodox Hindu family, Gora is a passionate young nationalist certain of his beliefs and scornful of anything that smells of foreign influence, including…

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Married off to a widower twice her age because her father cannot arrange a match with a man closer to her own years, young Nirmala enters a household thick with…

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Hori, an aging peasant farmer, wants nothing more in life than to own a cow, a small dream that becomes an impossible burden of debt, caste obligation, and village politics…

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Talking tigers, clever jackals, seven brothers turned into champa flowers, princesses who sleep for years under a magician's curse, and the ever-resourceful trickster who outwits kings and demons alike: this…

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வீரமும் துடிப்பும் கொண்ட வாணர் குலத்து இளவல் வல்லவரையன் வந்தியத்தேவன், ஒரு முக்கியமான ரகசிய ஓலையுடன் சோழ நாட்டை நோக்கிப் பயணிக்கிறான். கடம்பூர் மாளிகையில் நடக்கும் நள்ளிரவு சதிக்கூட்டம் முதல் தஞ்சைக் கோட்டையின் மர்மங்கள் வரை, அவன் அறியாமலேயே ஒரு மாபெரும்…

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The Chola empire is at its height, but beneath the splendor, a conspiracy is stirring to topple the ageing emperor and his sons. Vandiyathevan, a dashing young envoy, rides out…

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Hunter and trader Allan Quatermain is hired to find a missing man who vanished searching for the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon, somewhere beyond a range of mountains no…

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Deep in an unmapped corner of Africa, beyond swamps and desert and a lost civilization's ruins, rules a veiled queen who has waited two thousand years for her dead lover…

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Shankar, a restless young man from rural Bengal, takes a job with the Uganda Railway and finds himself, almost by accident, deep in the African interior chasing rumors of a…

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When young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to a remote castle in the Carpathians to finalize a property deal, he finds his host courteous, cultured, and utterly inhuman. By the time…

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Sent to manage a vast tract of forest land on behalf of an absentee landlord, a young Calcutta clerk arrives expecting a dull posting and finds instead a world that…

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In the small Bengal village of Nischindipur, Apu and his sister Durga grow up in genteel poverty, their father a priest and dreamer who is always about to make the…

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Abandoned on a wild stretch of coast as a child and raised by a solitary ascetic, Kapalkundala knows nothing of ordinary life until a shipwrecked traveler named Nabakumar washes up…

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Bengal is starving. The great famine has emptied the granaries, the East India Company's tax collectors show no mercy, and in the forests a band of ascetic rebels called the…

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A pearl arrives in the post for Miss Mary Morstan every year, sent by an unknown benefactor, along with a note asking to meet. When she finally does, at Sherlock…

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In the turbulent years when Mughal power was tightening its grip on Bengal, a young Rajput soldier named Jagat Singh is captured while campaigning against a defiant hill fort. Held…

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Twelve of the finest cases ever laid before 221B Baker Street, collected together for the first time. A king's indiscretion, a stolen gem hidden in a goose, a bride who…

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When a corpse turns up in an empty Brixton house with a single word scrawled in blood on the wall, the police are baffled. Newly arrived in London and short…

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On the fog-bound moor of Devonshire stands Baskerville Hall, and over the family that owns it hangs an old curse: a phantom hound with blazing eyes and dripping jaws that…