East vs. West: The novel delves into the complex dynamics of East and West, exploring cultural differences, prejudices, and attempts at understanding. It raises questions about identity, tradition, and the challenges of cross-cultural relationships.Love and Marriage: Love is a central theme, tested by social disapproval, family opposition, and societal expectations. The narrative explores the struggles of defying convention and maintaining love across cultural divides.Colonialism and Ident...

The six sections of this collection are like a sequence of musical variations on the theme of personal identity as it develops from childhood to death. The first section evokes the poet's experience of being lost, of his search for identity, and of his being found by God. Section II, in a kind of echo of Section I, celebrates the successive seasons of nature and functions as a metaphor for the movement through a life. Section III is a boisterous fugue on the high drama of clouds in the cou...

Some secrets are buried in the past. Others are served at the dinner table.London, 1999. Mario hosts an intimate dinner party for his oldest friends to mark the twentieth anniversary of a tragic event: the death of little Alan, a beloved boy from the gritty streets of Soho. But this is no ordinary reunion. It is a reckoning.Decades earlier, Soho was a dangerous underworld ruled by the shadows of the Kray twins. At the center of the chaos was Paul, a ruthles...

Kimono explores the fragile balance between love and cultural expectation through the union of two individuals shaped by profoundly different traditions. Set against a backdrop of social scrutiny and inherited values, the narrative examines how marriage becomes a meeting point for contrasting worldviews. The relationship at its center reflects both fascination and misunderstanding, revealing how admiration for another culture can coexist with deeply rooted assumptions. As personal ideals c...

Shibukaro ka Shiranedo kaki no Hatsu-chigiri. Whether the fruit be bitter Or whether it be sweet, The first bite tells.

The First Algernon Blackwood MEGAPACK® collects 36 classic tales of the supernatural by one of the greatest ghost story writers of all time. More than just ghosts, however, this collection includes tales of vampires and other creatures of the night...and much, much more. Hours of great reading await!Included are:THE WILLOWSTHE WENDIGOTHE SINGULAR DEATH OF MORTONTHE OLIVEANCIENT LIGHTSTHE KIT-BAGTHE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM

Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad, through which Conrad achieved "popular success." The New York Times, however, called it "an uneven book" and "more open to criticism than most of Mr. Conrad's best work." The novel's "most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspective" with the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an ...

This collection contains some of the best stories of Tagore who put India on the literary map of the world. Translated from Bengali to English, these stories depict the human condition in its many forms: innocence and childhood, love and loss, the city and the village, the natural and the supernatural. Prominent among the stories are the famous The Cabuliwallah, which has also been adapted as a movie. The book also gives an insight into the socio-economic conditions prevalent in Colonial B...

H. G. Wells's Collected Works is contained 15 novels written by Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) A British writer best known for his science fiction novels, he was arguably one of the most prolific writers in the history of literature, and wrote works in nearly every genre, including short stories and nonfiction. These are the 15  novels of Herbert George Wells in this book. 1. The Time Machine, (Heinemann text) (1895) 2. The Wonderful Visit, (1895) 3. ...

With the world at her feet and Californian railroad fortunes in her purse, Aimée had a tale or two to tell. Here, she boldly delivers her hilarious memoirs of escaping headhunters in Borneo, avoiding poisoning in Hong Kong and outwitting murder in Shanghai.Not remotely cowered by her skirmishes with sin, shame or vice, Aimée celebrates her quintet of unfortunate husbands including a Russian prince ...