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The only complete translation into English. N. M. Penzer (1924-28), The ocean of story, being C. H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story), 10 vols Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, Vol IV, Vol V, Vol VI, Vol VII, Vol VIII, Vol IX, Vol X at the Internet Archive. Based on Tawney's translation, but greatly ...
The New York Times rated it as one of the top ten best books of 2013. [17] It was an "Amazon Best Book of the Month (March 2013)". [18] [19] Donna Seaman from Booklist called the story "indelible and unique". [18] [20] The Christian Science Monitor ranked it number 14 in "15 best nonfiction books of 2013". [21] Therese Purcell Nielsen and Erin ...
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
The Indian Ocean is home to many literary texts, from Greco-Roman times to One Thousand and One Nights, the matrix of many narratives, which portrays Sinbad the Merchant through a fantastic and popular twist of the mind, and which is based on real details of navigation in this first ocean of globalisation. Combining Indian and Chinese ...
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Here are 15 books we recommend: Emma (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Jane Austen's Emma just might be the original friends-to-lovers story. The titular Emma Woodhouse attempts to matchmake those ...
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.
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