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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

Dinu was a favourite of Bela’s: she liked the way he looked, with his thin, bony cheeks and his wide forehead; she liked his seriousness and his manner of listening ...
( Category: Indian March 26,2014 )
Haiku by Stephen Addiss
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Addiss

THE ARTISTS HAKUIN EKAKU (1685–1768). Considered the most important Zen master of the past five hundred years, Hakuin was also the leading Zen painter, creating a large number of works ...
( Category: Japanese March 26,2014 )
Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | 2010-08-23 | Author:Rabindranath Tagore [Tagore, Rabindranath]

Twice-born bird, ah! wherefore stirred To wrong our royal lady? Goose, ah, say why wilt thou slay Her in forest shady? then he felt as if transported to another world ...
( Category: Indian March 26,2014 )
Search for the Buried Bomber by Xu Lei
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Xu Lei [Lei, Xu]

CHAPTER 32 Air Raid Ibelieved what the deputy squad leader said. After all, this was something the army drilled nearly every day. As I spent most of my time in ...
( Category: Chinese March 26,2014 )
Japanese Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Izumi Kyoka [Kyoka, Izumi]

21 "That made sense, as he had noticed what looked like coins scattered among the leaves on the ground. With the curtain open, he could see the shallow cavity carved ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 26,2014 )
Skeleton Women by Mingmei Yip
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Mingmei Yip [Yip, Mingmei]

At eight in the evening, my slender frame wrapped in a red, low-cut, Western dress, my feet in matching high heels, and my gloved arm around Lung’s, I walked with ...
( Category: Chinese March 26,2014 )
Fruit-Gathering by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

* * * LIV The Cloud said to me, "I vanish"; the Night said, "I plunge into the fiery dawn." The Pain said, "I remain in deep silence as his ...
( Category: Indian March 26,2014 )
I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Natsume Soseki [Natsume, Sōseki]

VOLUME III I WHEN I WAS describing my fence trotting exercises,I must have mentioned that bamboo fence which encloses my master’s garden. Beyond that fence to the south of us ...
( Category: Japanese March 26,2014 )
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Manu Joseph [Joseph, Manu]

SIMION CLARK WAS AN Anglo-Indian physics teacher whose sudden appearance in the cheap cement corridors of St Ignatius had all the enchantment of a Rolls-Royce passing through a narrow Madras ...
( Category: Indian March 26,2014 )
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1958-01-17 | Author:Yukio Mishima [Mishima, Yukio]

The young men float on their backs—their white bellies bulge to the sun . . . But now again I said not a word. I was ashamed of my own ...
( Category: Japanese March 26,2014 )
Songs of Kabir by Kabir
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-08-31 | Author:Kabir [Kabir]

XXX II. 95. <i>yâ tarvar men ek pakherû</i> On this tree is a bird: it dances in the joy of life. None knows where it is: and who knows what ...
( Category: Indian March 26,2014 )
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy by Van Norden Bryan W.; Ivanhoe Philip J
mobi |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Van Norden, Bryan W.; Ivanhoe, Philip J.

CHAPTER FIVE ZHUANGZI Introduction Little is known of Zhuangzi beyond what we can gather from the book named after him. Much of the book, however, is unapologetically fictional, so the ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Aravind Adiga

The Fifth Night Mr. Jiabao. Sir. When you get here, you’ll be told we Indians invented everything from the Internet to hard-boiled eggs to spaceships before the British stole it ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-21 | Author:Amitav Ghosh

STORMS I would have gone back to Morichjhãpi the very next week but was prevented by the usual procedures and ceremonies that accompany a schoolmaster’s retirement. At the end, however, ...
( Category: Indian March 25,2014 )
Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki Junichiro
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Tanizaki, Junichiro [Tanizaki, Junichiro]

"I WOULD join the song-thrush And sing my way up the river To meet spring in Miyako." Her semisen tuned to the proper low mode, O-hisa was singing an old ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )

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