Download or read book The Rupa Book Of Great Suspense Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery And Terror Lurk In The Pages Of These Great Suspense Tales Written By Some Of The Masters Of The Short Story During The Last Hundred Years.
Download or read book The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and terror lurk in the pages of these great suspense tales written by some of the masters of the short story during the last hundred years.
Download or read book The Rupa Book Of Great Crime Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Stories from the Raj written by Ruskin Bond and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin Bond's readers range from nine to ninety. And if there are such things as ghosts there are probably a few who are reading him in the spirit world. In these stories Ruskin Bond presents a picture of a `haunted India' as witnessed and described by British writers, officials and travellers during the pre-independence era. Ruskin Bond, resident of Mussoorie, is a well-known writer of fiction and a raconteur par excellence. His Tales and Legends from India, Angry River, Strange Men, Strange Places, The Blue Umbrella, A Long Walk for Bina and Hanuman to the Rescue are also available in Rupa paperback. The Ruskin Bond's Children's Omnibus has been a firm favourite with young readers for several years. Ghost Stories from the Raj, The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories, The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure, The Rupa Book of Himalayan Tales and The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories are some of his recent books for Rupa.
Download or read book Tiger Boy written by Mitali Perkins and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a tiger cub goes missing from the reserve, Neil is determined to find her before the greedy Gupta gets his hands on her to kill her and sell her body parts on the black market. Neil's parents, however, are counting on him to study hard and win a prestigious scholarship to study in Kolkata. Neil doesn't want to leave his family or his island home and he struggles with his familial duty and his desire to maintain the beauty and wildness of his island home in West Bengal's Sunderbans.
Download or read book The Rupa Book of Great Escapes written by Ruskin Bond and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin Bond brings to the comfort and safety of your armchair a collection of inspiring and hair-raising stories of courage and wits, from dangerous and exotic locales all over the world. The stories in this collection are mostly non-fictional, first-person accounts, all the more gripping for their direct narrative style and terse description. We travel through different yet equally exciting periods in history, from Casanova’s goal, to the erstwhile French colonies in North Africa; from the horrific battlefields of the First World War, to Malekula in the South Pacific. Besides being compelling accounts of famous escapes, this anthology provides a peek into fascinating histories, geographies and cultures, and urges you to be, as Ruskin Bond says, a global traveler.
Download or read book THE ROOM ON THE ROOF written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CLASSIC COMING-OF-AGE STORY WHICH HAS HELD GENERATIONS OF READERS SPELLBOUND Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends. Plunging for the first time into the dream-bright world of the bazaar, Hindu festivals and other aspects of Indian life, Rusty is enchanted . . . and is lost forever to the prim proprieties of the European community. This special edition marks the 60th anniversary of this award-winning book, written when the author was just seventeen. Poignant, heart-warming and an absolute classic, this book is forever a joy to read.
Download or read book Right Under Your Nose written by R. Giridharan and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2020 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kumudini's brown hair fitted her small head almost like a cap. She had a petite figure that matched perfectly with her narrow face, small nose, little lips and pouting mouth. She was pretty, and men fell for her in hordes. An outstretched hand held a prepaid card and a paper with perforation. The hand came closer.
Download or read book The Gita For Children written by Roopa Pai and published by Swift Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The truth is, Partha,' Krishna said, 'that there is no "better" path. Both paths – the path of knowledge and the path of action – work just as well. It is up to you to pick the one that you are suited to.' The Bhagavad Gita is a profound book from India that people have cherished for over 2500 years. It emphasises kindness and understanding when we make mistakes, and tells a compelling story about Prince Arjuna and his friend Krishna. They engage in a crucial conversation about the war against the most powerful and dangerous enemy of all – the one that lives within our minds. Roopa Pai's spirited, one-of-a-kind retelling is engaging, easy to grasp, and leaves a lasting impact. After you finish reading, you'll find yourself contemplating its wisdom and feeling a sense of inner strength.
Download or read book The Rupa Book Of True Tales Of Mystery And Adventure written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rupa Book Of Eerie Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunted old house, a terrifying werewolf, the echoes of a heinous crime, the mark of a sinister beast . . . these and many more grisly tales are in this compilation of eerie stories that will take you to unexplored territories of the unknown, the uncanny and the plain terrifying. These classic tales have been written by great literary giants like Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, C.A. Kincaid, Gerald Kersh, and many others. Compiled by master anthologiser Ruskin Bond, these riveting tales are a heady mixture of crime, mystery, and terror, sure to chill your bones and give you goose pimples. So, here is your chance to savour every morsel of this sumptuous assortment. Meet the rich cast of characters and read, if you dare . . .
Download or read book The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2003 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are exciting tales of hair-breadth escapes and thrilling encounters in the wild - stories of man's relationships with other living creatures, furred or feathered, fierce or friendly. All the stories were written out of the writers' own experiences. F
Download or read book Thrilling Tales written by Ruskin Bond and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The test of a good story, Ruskin Bond says, is when a writer is able to teach a your reader's attention from page one, perfectly paragraph one, and hold it to the end. Each one of the stories that he has included in this collection pass this test, and with flying colours. Spine-tingling unputdownable tales, this collection takes you from a woman's struggle against the elements in the cold, snow-swept Prairies, to the thick of a jungle where a man bored with hunting animals decides, instead to hunt a fellow human. Filled with conflict, suspense and adventure, Thrilling Tales: A Selection of Hair-Raising Adventures is a page-turner from beginning to end.
Download or read book Best Stories from Around the World written by Deepa Agarwal and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Stories from Around the World is a collection of timeless pieces from the world's greatest storytellers-Oscar Wilde, O' Henry, Saki, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Washington Irving and many more. Hailing from different countries such as America, Ireland, the United Kingdom and India, this book is an entertaining consolidation of diverse stories which cover a broad range of topics and themes. While 'The Gift of the Magi' resonates with the sense of love and loss, 'The Selfish Giant' and 'Rip Van Winkle' relives our childhood. Some stories warm your heart, some make you think and some delight you with their magical language while at the same time they explore universal themes and arouse a gamut of responses. A must-have, this book offers a plethora of classics to read and enjoy for any lover of a good story.
Download or read book A Mussoorie Mystery written by Ruskin Bond and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remember the old road, The steep stony path That took us up from Rajpur, Toiling and sweating And grumbling at the climb, But enjoying it all the same..' From 'Remember the Old Road' by Ruskin Bond Sometimes, a journey can be of discovery. And, in this compilation, Ruskin Bond has discovered hair-raising stories of other people's journeys, taken many many years ago. Bond describes the old track from Rajpur to Mussorie, surrounded by Oak trees and colonial buildings in 'The Kipling Road'. Braving blizzards and bandits, M. Huc takes a momentous journey to Ladakh in 'Journey to the Forbidden City', while Osa Johnson, the only woman adventurer in the book, gives her awe-inspiring account of cannibals in 'A Woman Among Cannibals'. Be it travelling for shikar or search for new lands or just for survival, this book is packed with action!
Download or read book The Rupa Book of Nightmare Tales written by Ruskin Bond and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of Ghost Stories from the Raj resulted in a number of requests for more this period. Ruskin Bond delved into his archives and came up with another entertaining collection of strange or ‘nightmarish’ tales written by Englishmen who came to India and the East Indies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her are spooks, werewolves, dacoits, assassins, man-eating tigers, and head-hunters! And in his Introduction Ruskin Bond tells us why those “mad dogs and Englishmen” went out in the mid-day sun and what happened to some of them! Never a dull moment – and never a dull sentence in this, the eleventh of Rupa’s fast-selling anthologies.
Download or read book The Rupa Book of Scary Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen hair-raising stories to make your flesh creep. Here are literary masterpieces by Kipling, Saki, Algernon Blackwood and others with tales filled with chilling terror and unfathomable horror.
