Download or read book TIME STOPS AT SHAMLI written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has selections from all of his major books and includes the classic novella Delhi Is Not Far.
Download or read book Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories written by Bond R and published by Penguin Random House India Pvt.Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has selections from all of his major books and includes the classic novella Delhi Is Not Far.
Download or read book The Room of Many Colours written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over five decades, Ruskin ond has written charming tales that have mesmerized readers of all ages. This collection brings together his finest stories for children in one volume. Published previously as A Treasury of Stories for Children, this attractive rejacketed edition includes two new stories, 'The Big Race' and 'Remember This Day'. Filled with a rich cast of characters and superb illustrations, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children is the defnitive book for all Ruskin Bond fans and truly a collector's Item.
Download or read book The Tree Lover written by Ruskin Bond and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything that you’ve always loved about Ruskin Bond is back His mesmerizing descriptions of nature and his wonderful way with words—this is Ruskin Bond at his finest. Read on as Rusty tells the story of his grandfather’s relationship with the trees around him, who’s convinced that they love him back with as much tenderness as he loves them.
Download or read book The Room on the Roof written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escape from Java and other Tales of Danger written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join intrepid heroes and dauntless heroines in their quest for survival against earthquakes, fire, floods and bombs! Live life on the edge with five stories of danger and adventure. Flee with Romi as he rides his cycle straight into the river to get away from a fearsome forest fire; listen in to Ruth’s hair-raising story of escape from rioting sepoys during the uprising of 1857; read about the author’s miraculous flight from Java as Japanese planes bombard the city; witness the havoc wreaked by the deadliest earthquake ever in Rakesh’s town, Shillong; and watch Sita combat a fatal flood. Written in Ruskin Bond’s inimitable style, with doses of humour and excitement, these extraordinary stories are simply unputdownable.
Download or read book The Cherry Tree written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rakesh plants a cherry seedling in his garden and watches it grow. As seasons go by, the small tree survives heavy monsoon showers, a hungry goat that eats most of the leaves and a grass cutter who splits it into two with one sweep. At last, on his ninth birthday, Rakesh is rewarded with a miraculous sight—the first pink blossoms of his precious cherry tree! This beautifully illustrated edition brings alive the magical charm of one of Ruskin Bond’s most unforgettable tales.
Download or read book The Road to the Bazaar written by Ruskin Bond and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates daily activities and adventures of a group of friends in a town in northern India.
Download or read book Delhi Is Not Far written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residents of Pipalnagar, a dull and dusty small town, hope to one day leave behind their humdrum lives for the thrills of Delhi. Deep Chand, the barber, dreams of giving the prime minister a haircut; Pitamber wishes to ride an autorickshaw instead of pulling a cycle-rickshaw; and Aziz will be happy with a junk shop in Chandni Chowk. Sharing their dreams of escape is the narrator Arun, a struggling detective-fiction writer. As he waits for inspiration to write a blockbuster, he seeks and discovers love in unusual places—with the young prostitute Kamla, wise beyond her years, and the orphan and epileptic Suraj, surprisingly optimistic despite his difficult circumstances. In Delhi Is Not Far, one of his most enduring novels, Ruskin Bond sketches a moving portrait of small- town India with characteristic sympathy and quiet wisdom.
Download or read book The Kitemaker written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classics ‘A Face in the Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Time Stops at Shamli’. Two of his autobiographical works, ‘Life with Father’ and ‘My Father’s Last Letter’, are also included in this selection. Filled with characteristic warmth, gentle humour and keen observations on daily life, this collection brings together some of the fi nest short fiction by one of India’s best-loved authors.
Download or read book Little Book of Everything written by Bond Ruskin and published by India Viking. This book was released on 2020 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep this little book by your bedside, or your desk, or on your kitchen shelf, and turn to it from time to time. It will have something comforting or helpful to say to you.
Download or read book Collected Short Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen, and has written memorable fiction ever since. He is famous not only for his love of the hills, but for imbuing the countryside with life and vibrancy through moving descriptions. The simple people who inhabit his stories evoke sympathy and laughter in equal measure. This wonderful collection of seventy stories, including classics like ‘A Face in Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’, ‘The Room of Many Colours’, ‘Dust on the Mountain’ and ‘Times Stops at Shamli’, is a must-have for any bookshelf.
Download or read book The Adventures of Rama and Sita written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beauty of All My Days written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin Bond, India's most loved author, is known for his innumerable stories, essays, poems and novels. A wordsmith, his life, work and philosophy open a window to a myriad world where solitude sits by tranquillity to ruminate time now and then. In The Beauty of All My Days, Ruskin opens a window to his relationships: his friends, his love-unsaid and unrequited, his parents' difficult marriage, his passage to England, his meeting with Diana Athill and the making of his first book The Room on the Roof and many other journeys-real as well as imaginary-that continue to remain untold and therefore unknown. Oneiric and candid, this memoir-with the rarest of photographs-is going to be one of the most sought-after books of our times.
Download or read book A Flight of Pigeons written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Shahjahanpur during the revolt of 1857. A flight of pigeons is riskin Bond's classic novella about the twists of fate, history and the human heart. When Ruth Labadoor's father is killed in a attack by sepoys, her family seeks refuge with their trusted companion, Lala Ranjimal, from where they hope to escape to bareilly. Based on true events, the book is a haunting story, rich in detail and drama. Filmed as Junoon.
Download or read book Rain in the Mountains written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life. The musings on his natural habitat, in both prose and poetry, offer a view of that simple and affable world. Some of his writings featured in the book are ‘Once Upon a Mountain Time’, ‘Sounds I Like to Hear’, ‘How Far Is the River’ and ‘After the Monsoon’. Rain in the Mountains will transport the reader into the quiet world of the mountains, lit with an eternal charm.
Download or read book Rusty Runs Away written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the five years of his life that this book traces, Rusty’s story is taken forward to his adolescent years. His world is turned topsy-turvy as many upheavals besiege him. After his father and grandmother pass away in quick succession, the twelve-year-old is left in the care of a guardian, Mr Harrison, in Dehra. But after a mysterious incident involving his stepfather and the gardener, he is sent away to boarding school. Restlessness compels him to run away from school, with an ambition to travel the world. But the plan fails, and he is soon back in Dehra, with his strict guardian. Rusty is now seventeen. He rebels and leaves home again, this time for good. Adventurous and thought-provoking, Rusty Runs Away is a book that children and young adults everywhere will enjoy.
