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A Tale Of Two Cities
₹249It is a historical fiction classic, written in 1859, set in London and Paris. The story is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror with acts of bravery and conspiracy, secrets and lies, imprisonment and torture, sorrow and loss, corruption and and altruism. After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie in England, whom he had never met. Lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become entangled through their love for Lucie Manette. And thus, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror.
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Alice in Wonderland
₹149It is a classic, written in 1865, that is enjoyed by both children and adults. As Alice slips into a dream, she finds herself chasing after a white rabbit with a waist coat and pocket watch. He heads down a rabbit hole but as Alice follows, she falls into a world very different from her own. A world with Cheshire cats, mad-hatters, packs of living playing cards, and an array of characters which will make Alice’s head spin as she manoeuvres cautiously through Wonderland. She meets a lot of characters, some helpful while others plain evil. In her Wonderland, everyone has a story and a lesson to teach.
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Frankstein
₹149Frankenstein; is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition published in Paris in 1821.
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Grimm’s Fairy Tales
₹149Grimms’ Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children’s and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or “Brothers Grimm”, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. The first edition contained 86 stories, and by the seventh edition in 1857, had 210 unique fairy tales.
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Little Women
₹249Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868. The story is based on the lives of March sisters that are radically different from each other and their passage from childhood to womanhood. They are guided by their mother who raises them alone while her husband is off doing his part in the Civil War.
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Moby Dick
₹199Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is written by American writer Herman Melville, first published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. It is a story of a ship captain – Captain Ahab who during one of his voyages is bitten by an enormous white whale, Moby Dick. Vengeful Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and waging an unholy war against the white whale.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
₹249Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884. It is an incredible tale of a boy, Huckleberry Finn, from a Mississippi River town who narrates his adventures with Tom Sawyer and how he gets into trouble for helping a runaway slave Jim.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
₹149The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson’s point of view.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
₹149The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain’s works during his lifetime.
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The Canterville Ghost
₹99“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.” Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost is a delightful story written in a witty way by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1887. The story is about a rather brash American family that buys a haunted mansion called Canterville Chase in Victorian England. Then there begins the holy terror by the ghost of a dead nobleman. Not only this American family faces new experiences in this mansion, this strange ghost also faces some odd but very curious experiences with this family that he had never faced before in 300 years.
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The Happy Prince and other tales
₹99“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for all ages by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: “The Happy Prince”, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “The Selfish Giant”, “The Devoted Friend”, and “The Remarkable Rocket”. This book is a brilliant and haunting treasure house for everybody where through the stories of Princes, rockets, nightingales, and roses, Oscar Wilde is teaching us about life, love, pride and mercy.
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The Scarlet Letter
₹249“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true…” - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a historical fiction, first published in 1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his “masterwork”. Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of a “fallen” woman, her vengeful and incognito husband, and a charismatic young minister harbouring a terrible secret. The female protagonist, Hester Prynne, conceives a daughter through an affair and is publicly shamed for adultery. She wears the titular red “A” on her breast, marking her as an adulteress. In her arms she bears Pearl, the daughter born of sin. The book explores the theme of sin, repentance, dignity, honour and courage.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde
₹129Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll and Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella’s impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the vernacular phrase “Jekyll and Hyde” referring to persons with an unpredictably dual nature: outwardly good, but sometimes shockingly evil.
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Treasure Island
₹249Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883. An alcoholic ex-pirate Captain passes away and leaves a chest which contains a secret map amongst other treasures. The map is highly sought after by all the wrong people. The male protagonist Jim Hawkin’s finds the map and speaks to his friends Dr. Livesey and a squire, Mr. Trelawney and they decide to venture to this mystical treasure island to hunt for said treasure.