| Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor | This is the fullest biography yet on the actor Charles Laughton. | ['Simon Callow'] | Fromm International | 1997 | 318 | ['Biography & Autobiography'] | | | en | nan | nan |
1 | Gone with the Wind | A historical novel by Margaret Mitchell. | ['Margaret Mitchell'] | Random House | 2020-01-02 | 1072 | ['Fiction'] | 4.5 | 5 | en | 'My dear, I don't give a damn.' Margaret Mitchell’s page-turning, sweeping American epic has been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thought by many to be the greatest of the American novels, Gone with the Wind is a story of love, hope and loss set against the tense historical background o… | 'My dear, I don't give a damn.'
Margaret Mitchell’s page-turning, sweeping American epic has been a classic for over eighty years. Beloved and thought by many to be the greatest of the American novels, Gone with the Wind is a story of love, hope and loss set against the tense historical background … |
2 | Hayvadan | It is based on Kathasaritsagara and Thomas Mann's retelling of Transposed Heads. | ['Girish Karnad'] | Radhakrishna Prakashan | 2021-07-29 | 132 | nan | | | hi | nan | nan |
3 | The London Jungle Book | A visual travelogue by Bhajju Shyam | ['Bhajju Shyam', 'Sirish Rao', 'Gita Wolf-Sampath'] | Tara Publishing | 2004 | 48 | ['Art'] | 5 | 1 | en | Bhajju Shyam, of the Gond tribe of central India, uses the visual language of his native tradition to record his observations of London and re-imagine its streets, pubs, and monuments. | “A beautiful book. I would like to give it to everyone I love when they are traveling by choice or necessity.”—John Berger “Could be this year’s quirky Christmas bestseller.”—The Bookseller “A startlingly generous and colorful collection of images, capable of making the most jaded metropolitan refoc… |
4 | The Private Life of Plants | This book reveals hidden events and phenomena of plant-life throughout the world. | ['David Attenborough'] | nan | 1995 | 320 | ['Botany'] | 4 | 3 | en | Without plants, there would be no food, no animals of any sorts, no life on earth at all. Yet for most of the time their lives remain a secret to us, hidden, private events. The reason is merely a difference of time. Plants live on a different time-scale from ours. Though not obviously to the naked … | Without plants, there would be no food, no animals of any sorts, no life on earth at all. Yet for most of the time their lives remain a secret to us, hidden, private events. The reason is merely a difference of time. Plants live on a different time-scale from ours. Though not obviously to the naked … |
5 | Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu | A brilliant biography of Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood & youth. | ['Simon Callow'] | Penguin Group USA | 1997 | 640 | ['Biography & Autobiography'] | 3 | 1 | en | Traces Welles' portentous childhood; his youth in New York, where he worked with director John Houseman; his notorious radio career; and the making of "Citizen Kane" | "A splendidly entertaining, definitive work."--Entertainment Weekly In this first installment of his masterful biography, Simon Callow captures the chameleonic genius of Orson Welles as only an actor/director deeply rooted in the entertainment industry could. Here is Welles's prodigious childhood; h… |
6 | King Lear | This is a tragedy based on the mythological Leir of Britain by William Shakespeare | ['William Shakespeare'] | nan | 1881 | 200 | nan | 4 | 48 | en | nan | You will be able to read this book on the web as well as supported mobile devices. |
7 | Tughlaq | The thirteen-scene play is set during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq. | ['Girish Raghunath Karnad'] | Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1972, 1975 printing. | 1972 | 86 | ['English drama'] | 3 | 1 | en | nan | nan |
8 | Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | It explains why all these seemingly absurd concepts in relativity. | ['Carlo Rovelli'] | Penguin | 2016-03-01 | 96 | ['Science'] | 3.5 | 440 | en | The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems and Helgoland “One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal “Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Revi… | The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems and Helgoland
“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Re… |
9 | The Three Golliwogs | Short stories by Enid Blyton | ['Enid Blyton'] | nan | 1969 | 184 | ['Golliwogs'] | 1 | 1 | en | nan | nan |