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| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2008-02-14 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9351182452 |
The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king Hala in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. The Absent Traveler includes an elegant and stimulating translator’s note and an afterword by Martha Ann Selby that provides an admirable introduction to Prakrit literature in general and the Gathasaptasati in particular.
| Author | : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra |
| Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Love poetry, Prakrit |
| ISBN | : 9780143100805 |
Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana King Hala in the second century CE, this is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise.
| Author | : Hāla |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
The Gathasaptasati is one of the earliest surviving anthologies of Indian poetry. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king, Hala, in the second century A.D., it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit and composed in the compact, distilled gatha form ... The Absent Traveler contains translations by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra of 207 verses from the [Gathasaptasati]. --Ravi Dayal Publisher.
| Author | : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780231128100 |
Annotation This volume surveys 200 years of Indian literature in English. Written by Indian scholars and critics, many of the 24 contributions examine the work of individual authors, such as Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, and Salman Rushdie. Others consider a particular genre, such as post-independence poetry or drama. The volume is illustrated with b&w photographs of writers along with drawings and popular prints. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
| Author | : Arundhathi Subramaniam |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 2020-01-25 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 935357613X |
Arundhathi Subramaniam's poems explore ambivalences -- the desire for adventure and anchorage, expansion and containment, vulnerability and strength, freedom and belonging, withdrawal and engagement, language as exciting resource and as desperate refuge. These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, and all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize, When God Is a Traveller is a remarkable book of poetry.
| Author | : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra |
| Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788175300194 |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2010-03-25 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0791494012 |
An elegant translation of the Sattasaī (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India deals with love in its many aspects. Mostly narrated by women, the poems reveal the world of local Indian village life sometime between the third and fifth centuries. The Sattasaī offers a more realistic counterpart to that notorious theoretical treatise on love the Kāmasūtra, which presents a cosmopolitan and calculating milieu. Translators Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken introduce the main features of the work in its own language and time. For modern readers, these short, self-contained poems are a treat: the sentiments they depict remain affecting and contemporary while providing a window into a world long past.
| Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Publisher | : Cosimo Classics |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1879 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.
| Author | : Connie Willis |
| Publisher | : Spectra |
| Total Pages | : 593 |
| Release | : 1993-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0553562738 |
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
| Author | : Claudia Gray |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2014-11-04 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062278983 |
Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes—and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer—her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul— escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows—including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt—as well as her own heart. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is far more sinister than she expected. A Thousand Pieces of You explores an amazingly intricate multi-universe where fate is unavoidable, the truth elusive, and love the greatest mystery of all.
