| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “india” (India)
books tagged “india”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
-
The Bhagavad Gitaby Eknath EaswaranISBN 1590301900 (1-59030-190-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Prince Arjuna faced a dilemma that many face sooner or later--whether or not to take action that is necessary yet morally ambiguous. The difference is that Arjuna's action was to wage war against his own family. With the armies arrayed, Arjuna loses his nerve. Krishna, his charioteer and incarnation of divine consciousness, begins to teach him the nature of God and of himself, that Arjuna can attain liberation through union with God, and that there are several available paths. And so the most famous and revered of all Hindu scriptures goes on to teach the paths of knowledge, of devotion, of action, and of meditation, becoming the seed for all the Hindu systems of philosophy and religion that followed. For all of its profundity, Eknath Easwaran manages to translate the Gita in easy prose that neither panders nor obscures. Coupled with his thorough introduction, Easwaran's version comes off on all the levels it should: as a guide to action, as devotional scripture, as a philosophical text, and as inspirational reading. So what does Arjuna finally do? He follows his dharma, of course, as we all must. --Brian Bruya [via]
More editions of The Bhagavad Gita:
- The Bhagavad Gita: ISBN 0375705554 (0-375-70555-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Bhagavad Gita As It Is: Complete Edition: ISBN 0892131233 (0-89213-123-3)
Hardcover, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust - The Bhagavad Gita: ISBN 0915132354 (0-915132-35-4)
Softcover, Nilgiri Pr - The Bhagavad Gita: ISBN 1590301900 (1-59030-190-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
- The Bhagavad Gita: ISBN 0375705554 (0-375-70555-4)
-
Bhagavad Gitaby BhaktivedantaISBN 0892131349 (0-89213-134-9)
Softcover, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita As It Is'Book summary:The Bhagavad-Gita is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom. Yet remarkably, the setting for this best-known classic of spiritual literature is an ancient Indian battlefield.
At the last moment before entering battle, the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder about the real meaning of his life. Why should he fight against his friends and relatives? Why does he exist? Where is he going after death? In the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krsna, Arjuna's friend and spiritual master, brings His disciple from perplexity to spiritual enlightenment. In the course of doing so, Krsna concisely but definitively explains transcendental knowledge; karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, and bhakti-yoga; knowledge of the Absolute; devotional service; the three modes of material nature; the divine and demoniac natures; and much more.
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is is the largest-selling, most widely used edition of the Gita in the world. [via]
-
The Bhagavad Gitaby Franklin EdgertonISBN 0674069250 (0-674-06925-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:To most good Vishnuites, and to most Hindus, the Bhagavad Gita is what the New Testament is to good Christians. It is their chief devotional book, and has been for centuries the principal source of religious inspiretion for many millions of Indian. In this two-volume edition, Volume I contains on facing pages a transliteration of original Sanskirt and the autor's close translation. Volume II is Mr. Edgerton's interpretation in which he makes clear the historical setting of the poem and analyzes its influence on later literature and its place in Indian philosophy. Sir Edwin Arnold's beautiful translation, "The Song Celestial," is also includes in the second volume.
Mr. Edgerton is the author of many books and articles in the fields of Egyptology and Oriental languages and literature. He is an editor of the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature.
[via] -
The Bhagavad Gitaby Juan Mascaro, Simon BrodbeckISBN 0140449183 (0-14-044918-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:The 18 chapters of "The Bhagavad-Gita" (c. 500 BC), encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul, and the three central themes of this immortal poem - love, light and life - arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God. [via]
-
Bhagavad Gita: A New Translationby Stephen MitchellISBN 0609810340 (0-609-81034-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation'Book summary:On the list of the greatest spiritual books of all time, the Bhagavad Gita resides permanently in the top echelon. This poem of patently Indian genius sprouted an immense tree of devotional, artistic, and philosophical elaboration in the subcontinent. The scene is a battlefield with the prince Arjuna pitted against his own family, but no sooner does the poem begin than the action reverts inward. Krishna, Arjuna's avatar and spiritual guide, points the way to the supreme wisdom and perfect freedom that lie within everyone's reach. Worship and be faithful, meditate and know reality--these make up the secret of life and lead eventually to the realization that the self is the root of the world. In this titular translation, Stephen Mitchell's rhythms are faultless, making music of this ancient "Song of the Blessed One." Savor his rendition, but nibble around the edges of his introduction. In a bizarre mixture of praise and condescension, Mitchell disregards two millennia of Indian commentary, seeking illumination on the text from Daoism and Zen, with the Gita coming up just shy of full spiritual merit. Perhaps we should take it from Gandhi, who used the Gita as a handbook for life, that it nourishes on many levels. --Brian Bruya [via]
More editions of Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation:
-
The Bhagavad Gitaby W. J. JohnsonISBN 0192835815 (0-19-283581-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:`I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavard Gita , the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata . In its eighteen short chapters Krishna's teaching leads the warrior Arjuna from perplexity to understanding and correct action, in the process raising and developing many key themes from the history of Indian relgions. The Bhagavad Gita considers social and religious duty, the nature of sacrifice, the nature of action, the means to liberation, and the relationship of human beings to God. It culminates in an awe-inspiring vision of Krishna as God omnipotent, disposer and destroyer of the universe. The poem has inspired a wide variety of interpretations, both within India and beyond, and it is the best known and most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world. This new translation is ideal for the non-specialist as well as for students of Indian religions, providing a full cultural and historical context in its introduction and notes. This book is intended for university students from 1st year up, studying Indian religions and culture, comparative religion, theology. Translated with introduction and notes by: Johnson, W. J. (Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Wales, College of Cardiff); [via]
-
The Bhagavad Gitaby A. M. Piatigorskii, J.A.B. Van BuitenenISBN 1852309172 (1-85230-917-2)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'More editions of The Bhagavad Gita:
-
Bhagavad Gitaby Christopher Isherwood, PrabhavanandaISBN 0451528441 (0-451-52844-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:[via]The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism, and one of the great religious classics of the world. Its simple, vivid message is a daily inspiration in the lives of millions throughout the world and has been so for countless generations.
Here is a distinguished translation that can be read by every person, not as an archaic monument to an ancient culture, but as a living contemporary message that touches the most urgent personal and social problems.More editions of Bhagavad Gita:
The Bhagavad Gitaby DeutschISBN 0819119008 (0-8191-1900-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'More editions of The Bhagavad Gita:
-
The Bhagavad Gitaby Edwin Arnold, Franklin EdgertonISBN 8120811380 (81-208-1138-0)
Hardcover, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:The Bhagavad Gita is the principal source of religious inspiration for many millions of Indians. This two-volume edition contains transliteration of the original Sanskrit and its close translation. Edgerton's interpretation analyzes its influence on later literature and its place in Indian philosophy.
To most Visnuites, and to most Hindus, the Bhagavad Gita is what the New Testament is to Christians. It is their chief devotional book, and has been for centuries the principal source of religious inspiration for many millions of Indians. In this two-volume edition (bound in one), Volume I contains on facing pages a transliteration of the original Sanskrit and the author`s close translation. Volume II is Edgerton`s interpretation in which he makes clear the historical setting of the poem and analyzes its influence on later literature and its place in Indian philosophy. [via]More editions of The Bhagavad Gita:
-
Bhagavad Gitaby PrabhavanandaISBN 1566198534 (1-56619-853-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Uses the beauty of verse to express the highest truths of Vedanta. Includes an introduction to the Gita, and a study of non-violence versus the need to fight a just war. The critics have singled out this translation: The book is self-contained. A complete stranger to the Hindu Gospel can pick it up and in one or two evenings follow the poem from its terrific beginnings to its sublime end. -- New York Times [via]
More editions of Bhagavad Gita:
-
Bhagavad Gitaby S. RadhakrishnanISBN 0061317594 (0-06-131759-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Sanskrit text in English translation, with notes,commentary, and introductory essay by author. Helps those who seek to understand Hinduism. A classic. [via]
More editions of Bhagavad Gita:
-
Bhagavad Gitaby Shri Swami PurohitISBN 0877739757 (0-87773-975-7)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Now in a miniature edition--the famous epic of India embodying the timeless and universal ideal of spiritual warriorship. In this great classic, often called the Gospel of Hinduism, the god Krishna teaches the warrior Arjuna that freedom lies in disciplined action performed without attachment and with loving reliance on the Supreme Self of all. [via]
More editions of Bhagavad Gita:
-
Bhagavad Gitaby T. NikhilanandaISBN 0911206094 (0-911206-09-4)
Hardcover, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:The Bhagavad Gita, an important Hindu scripture, is one of the outstanding religious classics in the world, and this translation by Swami Nikhilananda has been called "the first really readable, authoritative translation".
The Bhagavad Gita is unique among religious texts in its emphasis on the discharge of everyday duties, irrespective of their nature, as an effective discipline for the realization of God. The Gita teaches that if a man performs his duties, surrendering the fruit to God and discarding all selfish motives, he gains purity of heart and achieves ultimate liberation. It is knowledge of God that gives man the strength to face calmly and cheerfully the duties of life. The Gita shows the way to spiritualize life and illumine even its drab and gray phases with the radiance of the Spirit. It lays down practical spiritual disciplines which can be followed by all, irrespective of faith and creed.
Special features of this 404 page edition are an introduction to the philosophy of The Gita and a summary of The Mahabharata. Also, each numbered verse of the text is followed by an explanation of the significant words and a paragraph of commentary based on the interpretation of Sankaracharya, the great philosopher and mystic of eighth century India. [via]
More editions of Bhagavad Gita:
-
The Bhagavad Gitaby Winthrop Sargeant, Christopher ChappleISBN 0873958306 (0-87395-830-6)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:739 pages. [via]
More editions of The Bhagavad Gita:
Bhagavad Gita: An Interlinear Translation from the Sanskritby Winthrop Sargeant, Christopher ChappleISBN 0873958314 (0-87395-831-4)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita: An Interlinear Translation from the Sanskrit'More editions of Bhagavad Gita: An Interlinear Translation from the Sanskrit:
-
Bhagavad-Gitaby A. C. PrabhupadaISBN 0892133384 (0-89213-338-4)
Softcover, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita As It Is'Book summary:The Bhagavad-gita is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom. Yet remarkably, the setting for this classic of spiritual literature is an ancient Indian battlefield. At the last moment, the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder about the real meaning of his life. In the Bhagavadgita, Lord Krsna brings His disciple from perplexity to spiritual enlightenment. Bhagavad-gita As It Is is the largest-selling, most widely used edition of the Gita in the world. [via]
More editions of Bhagavad-Gita:
-
Bhagavad-Gitaby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553213652 (0-553-21365-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:"The Bhagavad-Gita" has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the "Mahabharata." [via]
-
Bhagavad-Gitaby R.C. ZaehnerISBN 0195016661 (0-19-501666-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:The most widely read and probably the most important of the Hindu Sacred Books for the understanding of religious mysticism. [via]
More editions of Bhagavad-Gita:
-
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is: With the Original Sanskrit Text Roman Transliteration English Equivalence Translation and Elaborate Purportsby A. C. Bhaktivedanta PrabhupadaISBN 089213268X (0-89213-268-X)
Softcover, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita As It Is: With the Original Sanskrit Text Roman Transliteration English Equivalence Translation and Elaborate Purports'Book summary:the is the main source-book on yoga and a concise summary of India's Vedic wisdom. yet remarkably the setting for this best-known classic of spiritual literature is an ancient Indian battlefield. At the last moment before entering battle the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder about the real meaning of his life. Why should he fight against his friends and relatives? Why does he exist? Where is he going after death? In the knowledge of the Absolute; devotional service; the three modes of material nature; the divine and demoniac natures; and much more. in the world. [via]
More editions of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is: With the Original Sanskrit Text Roman Transliteration English Equivalence Translation and Elaborate Purports:
-
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of Warby Barbara S. MillerISBN 0553353403 (0-553-35340-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War'Book summary:"The Bhagavad-Gita" has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the "Mahabharata." [via]
More editions of The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War:
-
Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of Godby Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher IsherwoodISBN 141798564X (1-4179-8564-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God'Book summary:Product Description Uses the beauty of verse to express the highest truths of Vedanta. Includes an introduction to the Gita, and a study of non-violence versus the need to fight a just war.
The critics have singled out this translation:"The book is self-contained. A complete stranger to the Hindu Gospel can pick it up and in one or two evenings follow the poem from its terrific beginnings to its sublime end. [via]
More editions of Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God:
Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of Godby PrabhavandaISBN 0874810337 (0-87481-033-7)
Hardcover, Vedanta Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God'More editions of Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God:
-
The Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God): With Introduction, Original Sanskrit Text and Roman Transliteration, a Lucid English Rendition, Guide for the Beginners and Daily Readingby Ramananda PrasadISBN 8120813901 (81-208-1390-1)
Softcover, South Asia Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God): With Introduction, Original Sanskrit Text and Roman Transliteration, a Lucid English Rendition, Guide for the Beginners and Daily Reading'Book summary:The Bhagavad-Gita has the original Sanskrit text with Roman transliteration, and a lucid English rendition. Concise and to the point commentaries on two hundred twenty-seven selected key verses are provided. One hundred thirty three verses are printed in red to enable the first-time readers to study these verses before delving deep into the vast ocean of transcendental knowledge. The teachings of saints and sages of major religious denominations as well as world leaders and scholars have been included. Quotations from the Vedas, Puranas, Upanisads, Smrtis, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhakti-sutras, Brahma-sutra, Yoga-sutra, as well as other major scriptures of the world such as the Bible, Dhammapad and Koran have been incorporated to underline the basic unity of all religious thoughts and to promote the universal brotherhood of mankind. Epilogue, references, Sanskrit transliteration and pronunciation guide, glossary and index are provided. A guide to meditation, beautiful pictures and Gita Calisa are included for daily Sadhana. [via]
More editions of The Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God): With Introduction, Original Sanskrit Text and Roman Transliteration, a Lucid English Rendition, Guide for the Beginners and Daily Reading:
The Bhagavad-Gita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation and Notesby S. RadhakrishnanISBN 0048910295 (0-04-891029-5)
Hardcover, Unwin Paperbacks
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad-Gita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation and Notes'More editions of The Bhagavad-Gita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation and Notes:
-
Bhagavadgitaby Bhagavadgita, Edwin ArnoldISBN 0486277828 (0-486-27782-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavadgita'Book summary:Paperback Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC. (1994) Language: English [via]
More editions of Bhagavadgita:
-
Bhagavadgitaby Nabar, Shanta TumkurISBN 1853261971 (1-85326-197-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavadgita'Book summary:Translated by Professor Vrinda Nabar and Professor Shanta Tumkur Arguably India's greatest gift to the world, The Bhagavadgita ('The Song of the Blessed') forms an episode in the sixth book of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata and is the supreme work of that religion. The Gita consists of the dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his mentor and friend, Lord Krishna, on the eve of the climactic battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga (disciplined action performed in the right spirit) as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable 'existential' anguish at having to join battle against his gurus and kinsmen. The Gita, although almost 2,500 years old, contains profound truths of great relevance to contemporary society in India and the West. [via]
More editions of Bhagavadgita:
-
Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Editionby J.A. Van BuitenenISBN 0226846628 (0-226-84662-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Edition'Book summary:No other Sanskrit work approaches the Bhagavadgita in the influence it has exerted in the West. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other New England Transcendentalists were deeply affected by its insights, a dozen or more scholars, including Annie Besant and Mahatma Gandhi, have attempted its translation, and thousands of individuals struggling with the problems divided loyalties have found comfort and wisdom in its pages.[via]
The Bhagavadgita ("Song of the Lord") tells of the young and virtuous Prince Arjuna who is driven to lead his forces into battle against an opposing army composed of close relatives and others whom he loves. The Lord Krsna, appearing in the poem as Arjuna's friend and charioteer, persuades him that he must do battle, and we see Arjuna changing from revulsion at the thought of killing members of his family to resignation and awareness of duty, to manly acceptance of his role as warrior and defender of his kingdom.
The Bhagavadgita is a self-contained episode in the Mahabharata, a vast collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and metaphysical doctrine that reflects the history and culture of the whole of Hindu civilization. The present edition forms a part of J. A. B. van Buitenen's widely acclaimed translation of this great work. Here English and Sanskrit are printed on facing pages, enabling those with some knowledge of Sanskrit to appreciate van Buitenen's accurate rendering of the intimate, familial tone and directness of the original poem.More editions of Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: A Bilingual Edition:
-
The Bhagavadgita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation, and Notesby Sarvepalli RadharkrishnanISBN 8172230877 (81-7223-087-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers India
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavadgita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation, and Notes'Book summary:18th edn; Dimensions: 20x13x2.6 cm [via]
More editions of The Bhagavadgita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation, and Notes:
-
The Bhagaved Gitaby Antonio de NicolasISBN 0892540907 (0-89254-090-7)
Softcover, Nicolas-Hays, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagaved Gita'Book summary:The Bhagavad Gita forms a small partseven hundred stanzasof the Mahabharata epic, two hundred thousand lines that are but a part of the Bhisma-Parvam. Contained in the Gita's pages are the secrets of life. The story takes an historical event, a war, and uses this as a setting to illustrate basic human conflictsunderstanding action and non-action, how to take part in society, how to understand your place in the universal scheme, as well as explaining the secrets of meditation. There are even complete instructions for understanding the dying process. It is a book to be read again and again, at various stages of life's path, for once you truly comprehend the material presented, you are well on your way to understanding the meaning of life! This edition contains a new Preface by the author that discusses the importance of the Gita for keeping our heart, mind, and soul open for continual nourishment and growth. [via]
-
E.M. Forster: A Passage to Indiaby Betty JayISBN 184046027X (1-84046-027-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'E.M. Forster: A Passage to India'Book summary:In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism.[via]More editions of E.M. Forster: A Passage to India:
-
Fine Balanceby Rohinton MistryISBN 140003065X (1-4000-3065-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fine Balance'Book summary:A fiction work by Rohinto Mistry and published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd in Canada in 1995. In paperback format, it has 822 pages. [via]
More editions of Fine Balance:
- Fine Balance: ISBN 0571203620 (0-571-20362-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd - Fine Balance: ISBN 0771034806 (0-7710-3480-6)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd - Fine Balance: ISBN 0679776451 (0-679-77645-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc - A Fine Balance : A Novel: ISBN 0375414819 (0-375-41481-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Fine Balance: ISBN 0679446087 (0-679-44608-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Fine Balance: ISBN 140003065X (1-4000-3065-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Fine Balance: ISBN 0571203620 (0-571-20362-0)
GeetaISBN 0571061575 (0-571-06157-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This BookMore editions of Geeta:
-
God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0060977493 (0-06-097749-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'God of Small Things'Book summary:In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language. [via]
More editions of God of Small Things:
- God of Small Things: ISBN 0679309411 (0-679-30941-1)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd - The God of Small Things: ISBN 0679457313 (0-679-45731-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - God of Small Things: ISBN 0783882963 (0-7838-8296-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - God of Small Things: ISBN 8186939008 (81-86939-00-8)
Hardcover, Indiaink - God of Small Things: ISBN 0060977493 (0-06-097749-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- God of Small Things: ISBN 0679309411 (0-679-30941-1)
-
Interpreter of Maladies: Library Editionby Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet SilverISBN 039592720X (0-395-92720-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition'Book summary:Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man. But Mr. Kapasi has problems enough of his own; in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. His fare on this particular day is Mr. and Mrs. Das--first-generation Americans of Indian descent--and their children. During the course of the afternoon, Mr. Kapasi becomes enamored of Mrs. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. "I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret.
I'm tired of feeling so terrible all the time. Eight years, Mr. Kapasi, I've been in pain eight years. I was hoping you could help me feel better; say the right thing. Suggest some kind of remedy.
Of course, Mr. Kapasi has no cure for what ails Mrs. Das--or himself. Lahiri's subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. Some of these nine tales are set in India, others in the United States, and most concern characters of Indian heritage. Yet the situations Lahiri's people face, from unhappy marriages to civil war, transcend ethnicity. As the narrator of the last story, "The Third and Final Continent," comments: "There are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept." In that single line Jhumpa Lahiri sums up a universal experience, one that applies to all who have grown up, left home, fallen in or out of love, and, above all, experienced what it means to be a foreigner, even within one's own family. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition:
- Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition: ISBN 0613257200 (0-613-25720-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition: ISBN 0618101365 (0-618-10136-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition: ISBN 0786264349 (0-7862-6434-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition: ISBN 039592720X (0-395-92720-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
- Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition: ISBN 0613257200 (0-613-25720-0)
-
Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1593081928 (1-59308-192-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Kim:
-
Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
More editions of Life of Pi:
- Life of Pi: ISBN 0156030209 (0-15-603020-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books - Life of Pi: ISBN 0151008116 (0-15-100811-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Life of Pi: ISBN 0676978991 (0-676-97899-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Life of Pi: ISBN 0606284001 (0-606-28400-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Life of Pi: ISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
- Life of Pi: ISBN 0156030209 (0-15-603020-9)
-
Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0812976533 (0-8129-7653-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of Midnight's Children:
- Midnight's Children: ISBN 0679444629 (0-679-44462-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Midnight's Children: ISBN 0140132708 (0-14-013270-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Midnight's Children: ISBN 0140283390 (0-14-028339-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Midnight's Children: ISBN 039451470X (0-394-51470-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Midnight's Children: ISBN 0812976533 (0-8129-7653-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Midnight's Children: ISBN 0679444629 (0-679-44462-9)
-
The Namesakeby Jhumpa LahiriISBN 0618485228 (0-618-48522-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Namesake'Book summary:Any talk of The Namesake--Jhumpa Lahiri's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, Interpreter of Maladies--must begin with a name: Gogol Ganguli. Born to an Indian academic and his wife, Gogol is afflicted from birth with a name that is neither Indian nor American nor even really a first name at all. He is given the name by his father who, before he came to America to study at MIT, was almost killed in a train wreck in India. Rescuers caught sight of the volume of Nikolai Gogol's short stories that he held, and hauled him from the train. Ashoke gives his American-born son the name as a kind of placeholder, and the awkward thing sticks.
Awkwardness is Gogol's birthright. He grows up a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect, but like many second-generation immigrants, he can never quite find his place in the world. There's a lovely section where he dates a wealthy, cultured young Manhattan woman who lives with her charming parents. They fold Gogol into their easy, elegant life, but even here he can find no peace and he breaks off the relationship. His mother finally sets him up on a blind date with the daughter of a Bengali friend, and Gogol thinks he has found his match. Moushumi, like Gogol, is at odds with the Indian-American world she inhabits. She has found, however, a circuitous escape: "At Brown, her rebellion had been academic ... she'd pursued a double major in French. Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge--she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, ore expectation of any kind." Lahiri documents these quiet rebellions and random longings with great sensitivity. There's no cleverness or showing-off in The Namesake, just beautifully confident storytelling. Gogol's story is neither comedy nor tragedy; it's simply that ordinary, hard-to-get-down-on-paper commodity: real life. --Claire Dederer [via]
More editions of The Namesake:
-
A Passage to India: Library Editionby E. M. ForsterISBN 0156711427 (0-15-671142-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passage to India: Library Edition'Book summary:What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?
"It is impossible here," an Indian character tells his friend, Dr. Aziz, early in the novel.
"They come out intending to be gentlemen, and are told it will not do.... Why, I remember when Turton came out first. It was in another part of the Province. You fellows will not believe me, but I have driven with Turton in his carriage--Turton! Oh yes, we were once quite intimate. He has shown me his stamp collection.
Written while England was still firmly in control of India, Forster's novel follows the fortunes of three English newcomers to India--Miss Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Cyril Fielding--and the Indian, Dr. Aziz, with whom they cross destinies. The idea of true friendship between the races was a radical one in Forster's time, and he makes it abundantly clear that it was not one that either side welcomed. If Aziz's friend, Hamidullah, believed it impossible, the British representatives of the Raj were equally discouraging."He would expect you to steal it now. Turton! But red-nosed boy will be far worse than Turton!
"I do not think so. They all become exactly the same, not worse, not better. I give any Englishman two years, be he Turton or Burton. It is only the difference of a letter. And I give any Englishwoman six months. All are exactly alike."
"Why, the kindest thing one can do to a native is to let him die," said Mrs. Callendar.
Despite their countrymen's disapproval, Miss Quested, Mrs. Moore, and Mr. Fielding are all eager to meet Indians, and in Dr. Aziz they find a perfect companion: educated, westernized, and open-minded. Slowly, the friendships ripen, especially between Aziz and Fielding. Having created the possibility of esteem based on trust and mutual affection, Forster then subjects it to the crucible of racial hatred: during a visit to the famed Marabar caves, Miss Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, then later recants during the frenzied trial that follows. Under such circumstances, affection proves to be a very fragile commodity indeed.
"How if he went to heaven?" asked Mrs. Moore, with a gentle but crooked smile.
"He can go where he likes as long as he doesn't come near me. They give me the creeps."Arguably Forster's greatest novel, A Passage to India limns a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst, and is remarkable for the complexity of its characters. Here the personal becomes the political and in the breach between Aziz and his English "friends," Forster foreshadows the eventual end of the Raj. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of A Passage to India: Library Edition:
- A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0151711410 (0-15-171141-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt - A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0679405496 (0-679-40549-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0713161078 (0-7131-6107-8)
Hardcover, E. Arnold - A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0786277815 (0-7862-7781-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0841904693 (0-8419-0469-3)
Hardcover, Holmes & Meier Pub - A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0895773341 (0-89577-334-1)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0156711427 (0-15-671142-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
- A Passage to India: Library Edition: ISBN 0151711410 (0-15-171141-0)
-
Shri Bhagavad Gitaby Winthrop SargeantISBN 079141888X (0-7914-1888-X)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Shri Bhagavad Gita'More editions of Shri Bhagavad Gita:
-
Song Celestialby Ediwn ArnoldISBN 0876122101 (0-87612-210-1)
Hardcover, Self Realization Fellowship Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Celestial'More editions of Song Celestial:
-
Song Celestial : A Poetic Version of the Bhagavad Gitaby Edwin ArnoldISBN 0835604187 (0-8356-0418-7)
Softcover, Theosophical Publishing House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Celestial : A Poetic Version of the Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:A Western version of a spiritual classic.[via]More editions of Song Celestial : A Poetic Version of the Bhagavad Gita:
-
Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1885)by Edwin ArnoldISBN 0766102491 (0-7661-0249-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1885)'Book summary:Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the Form of Krishna. [via]
More editions of Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (1885):
-
The Song Celestial: The Bhagavad Gitaby Edward ArnoldISBN 0876122128 (0-87612-212-8)
Softcover, Self Realization Fellowship Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song Celestial: The Bhagavad Gita'More editions of The Song Celestial: The Bhagavad Gita:
The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gitaby Christopher Isherwood, PrabhavanandaISBN 0460004956 (0-460-00495-6)
Hardcover, Dent
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gita'More editions of The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gita:
-
The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gitaby Prabhavananda, Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0874810434 (0-87481-043-4)
Softcover, Vedanta Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gita'Book summary:Uses the beauty of verse to express the highest truths of Vedanta. Includes an introduction to the Gita, and a study of non-violence versus the need to fight a just war. The critics have singled out this translation:"The book is self-contained. A complete stranger to the Hindu Gospel can pick it up and in one or two evenings follow the poem from its terrific beginnings to its sublime end." -- New York Times [via]
More editions of The Song of God, Bhagavad-Gita:
-
A Suitable Boyby Vikram SethISBN 0060786523 (0-06-078652-3)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Suitable Boy'Book summary:Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's--and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra's--attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence. [via]
The Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-Gita as It Isby A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaISBN 9185580465 (91-85580-46-5)
Hardcover, The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-Gita as It Is'More editions of The Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-Gita as It Is:
Spanish
Interprete De Emociones / Interpreter of Maladiesby Jhumpa Lahiri, Antonio PadillaISBN 848453961X (84-8453-961-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Interprete De Emociones / Interpreter of Maladies'More editions of Interprete De Emociones / Interpreter of Maladies:
Vida De Pi / Life of Piby Yann Martel, Bianca SouthwoodISBN 8423335127 (84-233-3512-7)
Hardcover, Destino
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vida De Pi / Life of Pi'More editions of Vida De Pi / Life of Pi:
Italian
-
Il Dio Delle Piccole Coseby Arundhati RoyISBN 8850200005 (88-502-0000-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Dio Delle Piccole Cose'Book summary:Ammu, figlia di un alto funzionario, lascia un marito violento e torna a casa con i suoi bambini, i gemelli Estha e Rahel, maschio e femmina. Ma nellIndia meridionale dei tardi anni Sessanta, una donna divorziata come lei si ritrova priva di una posizione sociale riconosciuta, soprattutto se commette lerrore di innamorarsi di un paria. I gemelli vogliono bene a Velutha, lintoccabile che la madre può amare solo in segreto, e attraverso il loro sguardo, capace di cogliere le piccole cose e i piccoli eventi, prende forma la storia di un grande amore, in cui si riflette il tema universale dei sentimenti in conflitto con le convenzioni. Nei loro pensieri e nelle loro parole risuona la critica più radicale a ogni legge che stabilisce chi si deve amare, e come, e quanto. [via]
More editions of Il Dio Delle Piccole Cose:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}