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This book is a comprehensive commentary on an octet sung by Sage Vishvaanara in praise of Lord Shiva. Various references are quoted from the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Ithihaasaas to help the readers understand how Lord Shiva is the ultimate essence of the scriptures and surrender to Lord Shiva alone leads one to liberation.

Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, a collection of poems, the most popular work by Rabindranath Tagore, was published in India in 1910. Later, he translated it into prose poetry in English as Gitanjali, Song Offerings, and it was published in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yeats. Medieval Indian lyrics of affection gave Tagore's model to the poems of Gitanjali, as well as he composed music for these lyrics. Love is the essential sub...

Indian Stories is a collection of interesting short stories. Kipling's incredible strength was as a short story writer. Moreover, this particular collection of short stories focused on the British Raj is one of the better efforts at bringing together his best works. which includes "The Man Who Would Be King, " "The Phantom Rickshaw, " and many more favorites. But mostly, it is linked together with a few of Kipling's short stories about the thr...

The Metamorphosis is a novel by Franz Kafka that was first published in 1915. This book describes the story of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, who wakes up one day and finds that he has transformed into a bug. The Metamorphosis is a book that concerns itself with the themes of separation, frustration, and existentialism. As Samsa struggles to accommodate his humanity with his change, Kafka, proficiently, twists his readers into a web that ...

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America was published between 1835 and 1840 and is viewed as one of the most extensive and intuitive books ever written in the United States. Seeing the failed trials of a democratic government in his native France, Tocqueville decided to study a balanced and prosperous democracy to get to know every detail of how it worked. Democracy in America is the result of all his studies. The book was and still is fa...

The first edition of this work appeared in Latin in Strasbourg in 1608. Containing the Revelation of the Most Illuminated Egyptian King and Philosopher, translated by German Hermes, the Noble Beloved Monarch and Philosopher Trismegistus, a. Ph. Theophrastus Paracelsus, Also Tinctura Physicorum Paracelsica, With an Excellent Explanation by the Noble and Learned Philosopher, Alexander Von Suchten, M.D. Along with theology and teaching in divine ...

Mark Twain's own autobiography remains the last of Twain's incredible long stories. Here he expresses his story in his own specific way, freely sharing his joys and sorrows, his bitterness and honors, and his likes and dislikes, as always jokingly. Not often, this is the story, and some of it is true. More than the tale of a literary person, this memoir is anchored in his relationship with his family and what they all meant to him as a husband...

The Mill on the Floss, a novel by George Eliot, was published in three sections in 1860. It thoughtfully portrays the vain attempts of Maggie Tulliver to adapt to her small-town world. The disaster of her situation is highlighted by her brother Tom's actions, who forbids her from communicating with the one friend who values her knowledge and imagination. While she is trapped in a compromising situation, Tom denies her altogether, but the sibli...

The Dunwich Horror is a horror story titled by an American Author H. P. Lovecraft. It was initially printed in the April 1929 edition of Weird Tales after being written in 1928. (pp. 481-508). It happens in the fictitious Massachusetts town of Dunwich. It is regarded as one of the Cthulhu Mythos' central tales. Only an elderly university librarian can stop a strange family from conjuring and nurturing an evil thing from another universe in a d...

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson is without a doubt the travel writing genre's most well-known and much-debated work (1775). But this chapter mostly focuses on Johnson's previous A Voyage to Abyssinia and just briefly mentions his travels in Scotland (1735). The book contains Johnson's most in-depth reflection on the function and ethics of the traveler, although he never visited Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia), an...

Heidi is a book of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri. It was initially published in two sections Heidi: Her years of wandering and learning and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned. It is a book about the incidents of the life of a 5-year-old girl in her concerned grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps, which describes the story of a little orphan girl, Heidi, who has been sent to stay with a lonely, irritating m...

When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller suffered from a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Soon, she also became mute. Her firm struggle to beat these handicaps, with the support of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan, is one of the extraordinary stories of human courage and commitment. In this classic autobiography, which was first published in 1903, Miss Keller describes the initial 22 years of her life, including the magical mome...