Themes & Styles

Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins - the Pandavas and the Kouravas - but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace....

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War....

छायावादी युग के प्रमुख कवियों में जयशंकर प्रसाद का नाम अग्रणी है। प्रसाद की कामायनी आधुनिक छायावादी युग का सर्वोत्तम और प्रतिनिधि हिंदी महाकाव्य है।

This international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace....

Full-cast dramatised retellings of the two most important epic Sanskrit poems of ancient India....

Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins - the Pandavas and the Kouravas - but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace....

Beyond Thoughts is a poetry collection that explores the root cause of anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, negative thinking, and emotional suffering to help you heal....

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent and is a major text of Hinduism....

Manas ka hans is a brilliant attempt to bring forth the life of Goswami Tulsidas. The novel is an attempt to address the complications of religion through Tulsidas while portraying him as a person who was afflicted with all the virtues and vices known to human beings....

Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, his ascent of Mount Purgatory and his encounter with his dead love Beatrice, and finally, his arrival in Heaven....

द्रौपदी महाभारत ही नहीं, भारतीय जीवन तथा संस्कृति का एक अत्यन्त विलक्षण और महत्वपूर्ण चिरत्र है....

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time....

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.

Featuring a delightful cast of characters and timeless Buddhist wisdom, and with His Holiness' compassion pervading every chapter, The Dalai Lama's Cat is simply enchanting....

From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose that illuminates how past wounds impact our present relationships....

Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written....

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....

The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. With additional poems from Wendy Cope's Collected Poems. Read by the author.

இப்புத்தகத்தின் தொகுப்பிலுள்ள இரு நாவல்களுமே ஆன்மீகத்தை மையமாக கொண்டவை. ஒரு கதை நகரத்திலும் மலைத்தலம்....

I Wrote This for You: Please Listen focuses on a different facet of life, love, loss, beginnings, and endings. This audio project inspired by the original book weaves the poetry into a never-before heard holistic narrative....

The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral....

From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....

Diary entries, medical records, book reports, phone calls, dates (the romantic kind), dreams, index cards, passive aggressive post-it notes, stories, emails to professors, dates (the month/day kind), worries, and resumes that never led to job interviews....

Indulge in Rumi's passion with this collection of 13th century love poetry. Become lost in the words of The Love Poems of Rumi. Included in this audiobook is a collection of Jalal al-Din Rumi's passionate love poems, translated by Nader Khalili.

Dead Souls, Gogol's epic poem in prose, is widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. We follow Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned conman, through the countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise as he arrives in the provincial town of 'N' and begins visiting various landowners to make each a strange and ghostly offer.

الديوان الرابع لمحمد ابراهيم بعد دواوينه الثلاثة: ""فلوماستر أبيض""، ""الحزن البعيد الهادي""، ""زي الأفلام""، يهديه إلى قرائه فيكتب.

lemon is an exploration of body and health. The poems in this chapbook come from learning to navigate life with a disability, anxiety and depression, bodily changes, illness and associated medical trauma, and the intersection of physical and mental health.

A delightful selection of entertaining poems, short essays, and written conversations involving the people of 20th century rural Australia and some of their working animals. This collection includes “When Dad Drives Home From Town,” “When the Sailor Rode the Brumby,” “The Old Barn School,” and many more.

जहाँ मौत नहीं है, बुढ़ापा नहीं है, जनता के असन्तोष और राज्यसभाई जीवन का सन्तुलन नहीं है वह कविता है नागार्जुन की। ढाई पसली के घुमन्तु जीव, दमे के मरीज, गृहस्थी का भार-फिर भी क्या ताकत है नागार्जुन की कविताओं में! और कवियों में जहाँ छायावादी कल्पनाशीलता प्रबल हुई है, नागार्जुन की छायावादी काव्य-शैली कभी की खत्म हो चुकी है। अन्य कवियों में रहस्यवाद और यथार्थवाद को लेकर द्वन्द्व हुआ है, नागार्जुन का व्यंग्य और पैना हुआ है, क्रान्तिकारी आस्था और दृढ़ हुई है, उनके यथार्थ-चित्रण में अधिक विविधता और प्रौढ़ता आई है।...

Esson’s first collection of poems, Bells and Bees, was published in 1910; a second collection, Red Gums and Other Verses, in 1912. Although Esson published no further poetry collections, his verse continued to appear in magazines such as The Bulletin until the late 1920s.

छायावादी युग के प्रमुख कवियों में जयशंकर प्रसाद का नाम अग्रणी है। प्रसाद की कामायनी आधुनिक छायावादी युग का सर्वोत्तम और प्रतिनिधि हिंदी महाकाव्य है। महाकाव्य चिंता से शुरू होकर आनंद तक 15 सर्गों में जीवन को एक दार्शनिक विस्तार देने की प्रसाद की कोशिश अनुपम है। कामायनी में जीवन की अब तक की मनोवैज्ञानिक और सांस्कृतिक विकास की गाथा व्यक्त की गई है।

In this original poem, the story of the birth of the Christ Child is told from the perspective of heaven and the angel who would announce the birth to shepherds below.

The world turns upside down for a young girl when her father begins a fatal battle with the merciless affliction cancer. Before his illness finishes its devastating rampage through her adolescence, she is confronted by a new demon. She falls victim, by the hands of a trusted adult, to sexual abuse. The devastation of these events causes her to question God's roll in her life, and whether He ever loved her at all. The Tablet of My Heart is a collection of Poetry from the journal of that young girl.

البهاء زهير هو شاعرٌ من العصر الأيوبي، خالف شعراء عصره في أساليبهم وألفاظهم وأوزان أشعارهم، فآثر البساطة وعدم التكلف و اختيار الألفاظ السهلة والأوزان الشعرية الخفيفة، وكانت له عناية خاصة بموسيقى الألفاظ، ولم يترفع في بعض شعره عن استخدام الألفاظ الشائعة على ألسن العامة، وقد لقيت طريقته إعجاب كثير من أبناء عصره.

Christina Rossetti’s poetry has never disappeared from view. Critical interest in her poetry swelled in the final decades of the twentieth century, a resurgence largely impelled by the emergence of feminist criticism; much of this commentary focuses on gender issues in her poetry and on Rossetti as a woman poet. Collected here are 16 of her most beautiful, haunting, and renowned poems.

لم ينل كتاب في الأدب العربي شهرة كتاب "الأغاني" لأبي الفرج الأصفهاني، وهو منذ أن ظهر من ألف عام قلَّ من لم يسمع به، أو يقرأ طرفا منه، أو يعتمد عليه في شيء مما يتصل بالتاريخ والحضارة، فقد كان الأصفهاني أحد أعلام عصره، شاعرٌ وراوٍ ومؤرخ وعالمٌ في الأنساب والسيرة.

من أهل حماة (بسورية) ولد ونشأ ومات فيها، زار القاهرة والتقى بعلمائها واتصل بملوكها، وكان طويل النفس في النظم والنثر، حسن الأخلاق والمروءة، فيه شي من الزهو والإعجاب.

في هذا الكتاب سنعرف الكثير عن أدب الشاعر صفي الدين الحلي بالإضافة إلى تفاصيل حياته، مولده ونشأته، شبابه ودراسته، آراءه السياسية وعلاقته بالسلاطين.

This project is a recording of 43 poems on themes of hardship and bereavement, which are commonly included in Wordsworth anthologies (Matthew Arnold, Palgrave, etc.)