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The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
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Armies of Hanuman
Ashok K. Banker · 420 pages
Rise of Kali: Duryodhana's Mahabharata
Anand Neelakantan · 534 pages
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
Valmiki, Ramesh Menon · 539 pages
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien · 414 pages
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Abolqasem Ferdowsi · 928 pages
Shahnameh is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. It is considered as one of the greatest Persian epics.
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 336 pages
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his ban
The Immortals of Meluha
Amish Tripathi · 417 pages
1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha – a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction.
The Lord of the Rings
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien · 1,172 pages
Building on the massive success of the first film in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, two new movie tie-in editions of this national bestseller feature special cover art for the paperback and hardcover.
Kim
Rudyard Kipling · 345 pages
Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R.K. Narayan · 171 pages
A retelling of the Tamil epic poem which records Prince Rama's search for his abducted sweetheart, Sita.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Vikram Chandra · 580 pages
Vikram Chandra's first novel is a story about exile, about the hunger for experience and the ache for return that mark the beginning and end of all journeys, and about the processes of personal redefinition implicit in such migrations. In a feat of magnificent invention, it links epic history - and the tale of a culture spiraling toward a moment of unspeakable violence - with the fates of three c
The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India
Thomas Mann · 143 pages
An ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together.
Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince
Anuja Chandramouli · 364 pages
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar · 256 pages
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 422 pages
Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Zemindar
Valerie Fitzgerald · 815 pages
A magnificent love story unfolds against the backdrop of exotic splendor and stirring deeds as young Englishwomaan Laura Hewitt journeys to the East to the fabled fiefdom of the Zemindar, Guardian of the Earth. He is Oliver Erskine, hereeditary ruler of his private kingdom, commander of his own native army - and brother of the man she loves. Subject to Britain's Queen, but also a son of India,, he