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Ruskin Bond
When Bina shifts to a school in Nauti which is a long way from Koli, her village - she must daily cross the mountain, the river and walk through the…
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Rudyard Kipling
A masterpiece of world literature–the exhilarating adventures of the boy who lived with wolves.
Mowgli is found abandoned in the jungle by Father Wolf who takes him to his pack…
A beautifully written account of the childhood of one of India’s favourite writers‘I am now over eighty years old. A very grand age, when I am allowed to sit…
Cecil Walsh
In 1909, Augusta Fullam, an English memsahib in Meerut, shocked polite English society by falling in love with Dr Clark, an Anglo-Indian of dubious reputation. Clark had long been unhappy…
Since he was a young boy, Ruskin Bond has made friends easily. And some of the most rewarding and lasting friendships he has known have been with animals, birds and…
E Nesbit
Twenty stories from the plays of William Shakespeare (as well as a simple biography of his life) are retold in this volume, first published in 1907. Nesbit does a wonderful…
Lafcadio Hearn
A classic collection of spooky stories about spirits and goblins from ancient Japan.
In the late 1800s, Lafcadio Hearn collected and retold strange and wonderful ghostly tales from old Japanese…
Arup Pal
This book explores the dilemma of Bond’s ‘two selves’ and his existential search for an identity. This exploration, analysed across six chapters, is informed by a variety of postcolonial, historical…
Archana Sreenivasan,Ruskin Bond
It was a small island in the middle of a big river, and just large enough for Sita and her grandparents to live with their three goats, the hens, a…
Meet Paati, Thatha, Dida, Nani, Dadi, Dadu and so many more grandparents
of all kinds in this charming collection of stories by some of India's best
children's writers. What is…
Debashis Bandyopadhyay
This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
Bond, Ruskin
Keep this little book by your bedside, or your desk, or on your kitchen shelf, and turn to it from time to time. It will have something comforting or helpful…
What else can we have in the zoo?‘ asked Teju. 'We need more than a lizard.’ When Mukesh decides to start a zoo with the help of his friend Teju…
During the 1857 revolt, Ruth's family seeks refuge with Lala Ramjimal in Shahjahanpur. Plans to escape to Bareilly are disrupted when Ruth and her mother are abducted by Javed Khan…
So I went out into the night, walked up the hill, discovered new things about the night and myself, and came home refreshed. For just as the night has the…
Celebrating India's 75 years of independence, Ruskin Bond shares his love for the country through memories and impressions in "A Little Book of India." He fondly describes its diverse elements…
Robert Louis Stevenson
Readers are invited to relive one of the greatest adventure stories of all time in this stunning, unabridged edition featuring bold, dynamic woodcuts by celebrated artist John Lawrence.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Heartfelt poems and engaging stories for and about children by one of the greatest writers of Indian literature.
In The Crescent Moon, Rabindranath Tagore brings alive the world of a…
Flora Annie Steel
The classic fictionalized story of a little boy who lived to be perhaps the greatest king this world has ever seen.
Long before he entered history books as Emperor Akbar…
James Matthew Barrie
Peter Pan has the power to fly and lives on an island. But he’s passionate about storytelling, so every night he goes to London to hear what a mother tells…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A selection of the most thrilling detective stories ever written by the master storyteller.
Sherlock Holmes, the world’s cleverest detective, sets forth in this collection of six extraordinary stories to…
Watch out as mischiefs and mischief-makers of all shapes and sizes come tumbling out in this hilarious collection of stories.
Is your school a hotspot for jokes? Do your family…
Gulnaz Fatma
Ruskin Bond has won the hearts of millions of readers with his countless charming short stories and introspective novels. From biographical tales about acting as a grandfather to children, to…
John Ruskin
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
I need a window to look at the world without; for only then can I look at the world within. A room without a window is rather like a prison…
