30 January 2010

The enduring charm of Pride And Prejudice

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Why is it that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice enjoys such a place of pride in the history of literary annals? The book has been re-ima...
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20 January 2010

Collected Short Stories Vol 1 Somerset Maugham

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Pages :536 First Published in : 1951 There are some writers who once you sample their works, you cannot give up until you have covered a fai...
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14 December 2009

The Moon And Sixpence

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Author : Somerset Maugham Pages : 215 Publishers : Vintage Classics First published in the year : 1919 A Moon and Sixpence is a story t...
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06 December 2009

Shashi Tharoor's Bookless In Baghdad

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Author : Shashi Tharoor Year Of Publishing : 2005 Price : 325 Publishers : Penguin Shashi Tharoor in his present role as Minister ma...
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05 December 2009

Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy

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Author : Hanif Kureishi Year of Publishing : 1998 Pages : 155 Hanif Kureishi is known for his controversial, soul-baring and highly sexed up...
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15 November 2009

Two States - The story of my marriage

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Knotty affairs Author : Chetan Bhagat Price : Rs 99 Year of Publishing : 2009 Publishers : Rupa Pages : 269 Like all his last three works, ...
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11 November 2009

Megastar - Chiranjeevi and Telugu Cinema after N T Rama Rao

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Author: S V Srinivas Pages: 240 Price: 695 Publishers: Oxford Film studies, as an area of interest to many of us, is not really a well-e...
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29 October 2009

'He's Just Not THAT Into You'

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I happened to read this while casually browsing at a book store, and found it uproariously funny. It's typically about women...
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25 October 2009

Rohinton Mistry's Tales From Firozsha Baag

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Author : Rohinton Mistry Published in : 1987 Pages : 303 Neighbourhood nuggets This was my first introduction to an author who made it to t...
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13 October 2009

Book review: Purple Hibiscus

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Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pages : 303 Published in the year: 2004 The one thing to do before reading Nigerian literature is t...
10 October 2009

Somerset Maugham's Ten Novels And Their Authors

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Author : Somerset Maugham Pages : 340 Published in the year : 1954 The one aspect among many others that draws one to Somerset Maugham'...
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05 September 2009

Warming up to Wodehouse

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It's been ages since I picked up a P G Wodehouse book to read. It must be in school that I read Thank You Jeeves and I remember it was...
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01 September 2009

Arzee - The Dwarf

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Author : Chandrahas Choudhury Pages : 184 Publishers: Harper CollinsPublished year: 2009 Price: 325 The title of the book intrigues you a...
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23 August 2009

Past perfect: George Eliot's Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe

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Author : George Eliot Pages : 212 Written in : 1860-61 Lost and found Every now and then, when I feel underwhelmed with contemporary works ...
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19 August 2009

Review: The Story Of A Widow

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Author : Musharraf Ali Farooqi Pages : 249 Price: 495 Publishers : Picador Published In : 2008 It was with some enthusiasm tha...
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