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Sinbad the Sailor" is a retelling of the most renowned adventurer's tales from the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, with additional information on the stories' history and setting. Sinbad told fantastic stories about his seven voyages that brought him his riches, the eerie phenomenons and fear he encountered along the way, giant beasts and exotic creatures, storms at sea, and regions beyond the horizon. He also tells here about the very in...

Step aside Sherlock, there is a new story in town by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1907 London, after being rejected by the lady he loves because he is too ordinary, young journalist Edward Malone tries to seek adventure and celebrity in order to show himself worthy of her. The most heroic action his editor could think of was to send him to interview Professor Challenger. Initially poor Malone repeated the previous experience of his colleagues, b...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic novel in first person narration. It's the 3rd book written by the author which turned out to be a supreme achievement in his career. As the story starts, Nick can be seen moving from the Midwest to the west Egg, Long Island seeking his fortune as a bond salesman. In this new place he encounters a mysterious person, Jay Gatsby who is Nick's next-door neighbor. He gets involved in the plan o...

A Christmas Carol, which is a Christmas ghost story, opens up on a frigid Christmas Eve in London, where Ebenezer Scrooge is personified as an unkind man who is rude in his behavior towards his nephew who invited him on Christmas. The novel's main plot is around Ebenezer Scrooge, who meets the spirit of his deceased business partner, who warns him to avoid the same fate as he did while alive. Scrooge was afterward visited by the ghosts of Chri...

Want to experience horror and dread in its most nascent forms. Well here is Frankenstein, made by the celebrated author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The book originated out of a competition between her, her husband Percy, and Lord Byron, to see who writes the best horror story. She won the competition, thereby bringing into the world one of its most memorable fictional characters and stories. The story begins with a fictional correspondence be...

One of the most renowned novels of 19th century 'Crime And Punishment, by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, revolves around the tragic story of Raskolnikov, a handsome and intelligent man who is gripped by anxiety and has isolated himself from others. His wrapped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder of a old pawnbroker. Was this for the betterment of the society? Surprised by his sense of guilt and terrified of the consequences of...

Edith Nesbit's children's narrative book 'The Railway Children' was serialized in a London magazine in 1905 and then published in 1906. Best among the finest collection of books written by Nesbit, the Railway Children has a storyline of 3 little lads named Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis who were immensely enjoying their life with their parents in London. Their comfortable existence comes to an end when their father goes missing unexpectedly. Afte...

The story begins with 'Tom', a young chimney sweep, who toils under the misery of his harrowing work and cruel master until fairies arrive to turn him into a water baby. Plunged into the magical underwater life, the newest member in the delightful world, Tom encounters a unique bunch of Cherubic fellow water babies and other water species that are telling him the stories of their origin. After a long and arduous journey through the other- en...

A great humorous story about mistaken identities. The play Twelfth Night revolves around Sebastian and his twin sister, Viola, who, after being separated following a shipwreck, each believes the other is dead. The play opens when Viola assumes the identity of Cesario, a page in the Duke of Orsino's household. The Duke is smitten by Countess Olivia, but she rejects him in favor of the freshly arrived young page. The comedic antics of Malvolio...

Three Men in a Boat, is a humorous account by English Writer Jerome K. Jerome, written by him in 1889. This Comic Memoir is about a two-week boating trip on the Thames river from Kingston to Oxford and back, that he took with his friends George, Harris, and Jerome's dog Montmorency. The story describes their river journey and all the funny mishaps that take place in the course of the journey. The book contains the most funniest and often consi...

King Solomon's Mines is a novel written by H. Rider Haggard and published in 1885. It tells the story of Allan Quatermain, a British big-game hunter who searches for the legendary King Solomon's Mines in Africa, at the behest of an unnamed client. The book has been adapted numerous times for film and television. The novel is divided into four parts, each part told in the first-person by one of the protagonists. The first three parts all featur...

Gregor Samsa, a sales representative, awakens in his bed to end up changed into an enormous insect. He checks out his room, which seems typical, and chooses to return to fall back to sleep and disregard what has occurred. He endeavors to turn over while sleeping, just to find that he can't anymore because of his new body-he is stuck on his hard, arched convex back. He attempts to scratch a tingle on his stomach, yet when he contacts himself wi...

Railway Recruitment Board Non-Technical Popular Categories (RRB NTPC) is a recruitment test for selection to non-technical popular categories (NTPC) posts in railways.RRB NTPC is going to recruit the eligible candidates over 35, 208 vacancies for the posts of Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) i.e. Junior Clerk cum Typist, Accounts Clerk cum Typist, Junior Time Keeper, Trains Clerk, Commercial cum Ticket Clerk, Traffic Assistant, Goods Gu...

National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) is conducted jointly by National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar and Mumbai University. The candidates that are able to successfully qualify the exams will be offered admission in the above mentioned prestigious universities. The NEST Exam is conducted annually to offer admission for Integrated MSc programme in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is a Central Armed Police Force in India. The CISF provides security cover to 300 industrial units, government infrastructure projects and facilities and establishments located all over India.The role of CISF has undergone a diversification and it now also protects airports, seaports, metro rail networks, government buildings, heritage monuments, nuclear power plants etc.

The Faculty of Law of DU is the time tested legal institution of par excellence. It is the national hub of legal studies. Since its inception in 1924. Studying Law offers the opportunity to develop a range of skills and explore many aspects of human life. It gives you a chance to help needy people and make the world a better place. DU- LLB Entrance Exam 2020 is a university level test conducted annually to shortlist candidates for admission in...

Junior Associate of the Indian Institute of the Bankers (JAIIB) is an associate examination conducted by the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF). The Indian Institute of Banking and Finance test candidates' proficiency in finance and banking through the exam. Only members of IIBF can appear in this examination. JAIIB is one of the front-running courses or exams to educate and train beginners employed in the fields of banking and fin...

Manipal Academy of Higher Education, formerly known as Manipal University, is a private research institute deemed to be a university located in the university town of Manipal, Udupi, Karnataka, India. Manipal Academy of Higher Education has branch campuses in Dubai and Mangalore. Manipal Academy of Higher Education conducts its own online entrance exam to offer admissions to eligible candidates in the programmes. Candidates can get admissions ...

Ambrish is the pen name of Dr. Karnail Singh. He was born in a small village bordering Pakistan in the Gurdaspur district of India's Punjab state. After studying up to 7th standard in schools in nearby villages, he had a stroke of luck in going to Chandigarh for further studies. He completed his school from Sector 23 Government School and pre-medical from Sector 11 Government College there. After that he got admission in M.B.B.S at Government ...

The lovely sound of 'Priyatma', born out of awe-inspiring melody, has its own sound which should be accepted as a longing to be with Anhad. The realistic spirit of this unknown sensation of longing, while embracing the vastness, reveals the mystical realization of the explanation of the miraculous deeds of nature. The music under which Paramjit Sohal expresses his poetic creed is a beautiful world of supernatural light of the seriousness of th...