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  Charminar

  Pranab Raha

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  Publisher’s Note:Two years ago, when we published Pranab Raha’s collection of essays ‘Akopat’, we promised the readers that we will bring more of his works in the future. Hence, we are pleased to bring you his second published audiobook ‘Charminar’.‘Charminar’ is a collection of four short and long stories by the author that are basically satirical in nature.In this book, he has brought out the subtle aspects of human character in a humorous approach. Like all his writings, these stories too, have an unspoken hidden message, that a sophisticated reader would have no difficulty in grasping.We hope that ‘Charminar’, like the author’s first book ‘Akopat’ published by us will be well received by the readers.Author’s Note:The intersection of time and technology has brought about some changes in the way people consume literature. Recognizing this change, I have published an audiobook of four stories, embracing this transformation.However, for enthusiastic readers, the printed hard copy of the book will also be made available very soon.Since the four stories are narrated by four different narrators in distinct styles, the stories do not possess the same qualities in all aspects.Nevertheless, if the stories provide an enjoyable listening experience, then the efforts and contributions of those involved in this endeavour, although somewhat limited, will be worthwhile.

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  Quiet Night Think - Poems & Essays

  Gillian Sze

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  “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition.
  		 
  During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long poem, Quiet Night Think takes its title from a direct translation of an eighth-century Chinese poem by Li Bai, the subject of the opening essay. Sze’s memory of reading Li Bai’s poem as a child marks the beginning of an unshakable encounter with poetry. What follows is an intimate anatomization of her particular entanglement with languages and cultures.
  		 
  In her most generically diverse book yet, Sze moves between poetry and prose, mother and writer, the lyrical and the autobiographical, all the while inviting readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation: What are you trying to be? Where does a word break off? What calls to us throughout the night?

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  Previously Feared Darkness

  Robert Priest

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  Picking up and pulling at the vibrant threads of Robert Priest's last book of poems, Reading the Bible Backward, this collection explores new themes while spanning multiple strands of thought. One strand leads, with unabashed candor and elegance, through the author's love life; another, through fields of praise; a third experiments with automated metaphors and delivers a challenging new selection of mash-ups that Priest calls meme splices. A fourth thread rekindles the author's love of the prose poem to produce a suite of strange tales, bizarre playlets, and phonetic modifications. With flair and daring, Previously Feared Darkness consorts with forms and subject matter to present the work of a master getting deep, nasty, and hilarious with the best of them.

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  More Patina than Gleam

  Jane Aldous

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  This series of poems, based in post war Edinburgh, tell the story of Linda, fleeing with her 11 year old daughter from England and an abusive relationship. In hiding as a lady's companion in one of the city's suburbs, mother and daughter settle into their new life in Elsie's rackety house, and encounter a variety of characters who will change their lives forever.
  More Patina than Gleam celebrates outsiders getting by in hard times – the day to day grind of cleaning a house, periods, prejudice, ageing, sexuality and falling in and out of love. The poems are not autobiographical, but Jane Aldous, whose own mother used to say that she could have run away with Jane when she was a baby, has gently torn scraps from her own life to add to the collage.

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  Hay Fever

  Noel Coward

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  Three members of an idiosyncratic family are expecting company at their country estate. But when their unsuspecting guests arrive, they find that a weekend with the Bliss family is anything but. Classic Noël Coward.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Tate Donovan as Richard Gratham
  Arabella Field as David Boies
  Joy Gregory as Sorel Bliss Coryton
  Jeffrey Jones as David Bliss
  Lynne Marta as Clara
  Serena Scott Thomas as Myra Abundel
  Carolyn Seymour as Judith Bliss
  Eric Stoltz as Sandy Tyrell
  Simon Templeman as Simon Bliss
  
  Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in October of 1999.

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  Thomas Hardy - Chapter & Verse -...

  Thomas Hardy

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Thomas Hardy - An Introduction 
  2 - An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy 
  3 - A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy 
  4 - The Mother Mourns by Thomas Hardy 
  5 - Rain on a Grave by Thomas Hardy 
  6 - The Dead Man Walking by Thomas Hardy 
  7 - Rome - Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  8 - At the Royal Academy by Thomas Hardy 
  9 - In the Moonlight by Thomas Hardy 
  10 - The Seasons of Her Year  by Thomas Hardy 
  11 - Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy 
  12 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  14 - The Oxen by Thomas Hardy 
  15 - The Fiddler of the Reels by Thomas Hardy

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