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A prince once gave up everything to attain inner peace, creating the world’s most treasured and well-known to coming-of-age story: Siddhartha’s journey to Enlightenment; his transformation from a mere mortal to an enlightened soul. Join Siddhartha, the ‘brooding dove’, as he wins Yashodhara’s hand in marriage, challenges his father-in-law, celebrates with wine and festivities and then, to everyone’s surprise and consternation, ...
The book Voice of the Buddha: The Dhammapada is a commentary on the Dhammapada, one of the popular texts of the Buddhist canon. It contains the religiously inspiring statements, thought to have been made by Buddha, on various occasions. It is a Buddhist scripture but reads like the Gita. It may also be taken as the Buddhist manual on the art of living. It is a handbook of practical ethics.Buddha's message of social equality and brotherhood of man has been a ...
Poet, journalist, translator, film-maker, broadcaster, Marxist activist and recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize, Faiz Ahmed Faiz grew into a legend in his lifetime. With his death in 1984, his admirers all over the world felt as if a literary era had come to an end. According to Edward Said, a celebrated orientalist, Faiz is ‘the greatest of contemporary Urdu poets’. Being a liberal humanist, Faiz’s poetic ...
British Victorian Literature—Critical Assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever published on a very complex period in English literary history. Divided into five sections—Victorianism, poetry, fiction, prose, criticism and drama—this selection offers a comprehensive survey of the Victorian age in literature. It is hoped that all students of advanced English literature will find this book eminently ...
Critical Approaches to Fiction is designed to offer the post-graduate student, and the general readers, a comprehensive cross-section of some of the best critical material available on the theory and practice of fiction. Within the compass of this Volume, the authors have included representative essays by such eminent critics and writers as Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Mark Schorer, Philip Rahv and Wayne C. Booth. This book covers, every significant aspect of ...