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  2. List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

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    The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [1]

  3. The English Teacher - Wikipedia

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    The English Teacher is a 1945 novel written by R. K. Narayan.It is a part of a series of novels and collections of short stories set in "Malgudi". The English Teacher was preceded by Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and Malgudi Days, (1943) and followed by Mr. Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi.

  4. East India Company - Wikipedia

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    The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region , initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.

  5. Roli Books - Wikipedia

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    Roli Books was founded in 1978 by Pramod Kapoor, initially with an illustrated book on Rajasthan, first printed in Singapore. [1] The company developed relations with publishing houses in France following Kapoor trip to Paris in 1981, when he bought 3,000 copies of The Last Maharaja and sold the whole lot in India. [2]

  6. List of best-selling fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    English Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven: 800 British J. K. Rowling: 600 million [13] 600 million [13] English young adult, fantasy, crime fiction, including the Harry Potter series 22 British Sidney Sheldon: 370 million [14] 600 million [15] English Suspense: 21 American Eiichiro Oda: 516.6 million [16] 523.2 ...

  7. Anita Desai - Wikipedia

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    The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000: 2768 – 2785. Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake. "A Devoted Son by Anita Desai". The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 1991: 92–101. Gupta, Indra. India's 50 Most Illustrious Women.

  8. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    Subject Area - subject area of the book; Topic - topic (within the subject area) Collection - belongs to a collection listed in the table above; Date - date (year range) book was written/composed; Reign of - king/ruler in whose reign this book was written (occasionally a book could span reigns) Reign Age - extent of the reign

  9. List of English-language books considered the best - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.