Dear Friends!!!
As I promised ,I'm trying to build a mini,online ebook library for all my friends of IF.I'm trying to put the weblinks for online reading and download for each book suggested by friends of IF.This may help enthusiastic readers.
1)Name of the Book: ANIMAL FARM
Author: George Orwell
Year: 1945
About the author:
George Orwell was the pen name used by British author and journalist Eric Arthur Blair. During most of his professional life time Orwell was best known for his journalism, both in the British press and in books such as Homage to Catalonia, describing his activities during the Spanish Civil War, and Down and Out in Paris and London, describing a period of poverty in these cities. Orwell is best remembered today for two of his novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four( written from the from the site http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/)
Synopsis:
Animal Farm was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. Who can forget "All Animals Are Created Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others." By putting wisdom in the mouths of animals, Orwell uses an age-old artifice and proves again how the pen can be mightier than the sword.( http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_97804515 26342,00.html)
Links for this book:
http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/Adelaide/aut/orwell_geor ge.html
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/
http://www.msxnet.org/orwell/
http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/animalfarm/
http://www.novelguide.com/animalfarm/index.html
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/animalfarm.html
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeor ge/prose/AnimalFarm/index.html
Member Comments:
Dr. Abhijit Shukla (comments on this book "A must for everyone who ever wants to be considered a grown up. 120 pages of absolute wisdom)
Virgo_stars( comments on this books "it was suchhh a good book. one of the best i have ever read. It truly is a classic)
Sneha3105 (comments on this book"one very powerful book, i did as my lit text when i was 13. i did not understand much then but the more i read it, the more i understood and just fell in love with this novel.)
2)Name of the Book: THE FOUNTAINHEAD
Author: Ayn Rand
Year: 1943
About the author:
Born and educated in Russia, Ayn Rand moved to the United States in 1926, moving to Hollywood to begin a career as a screenwriter. In 1932 she sold her first screenplay, but soon turned to writing novels. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller. Still occasionally working as a screenwriter, Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism, a philosophy that champions capitalism and the preeminence of the individual.
Synopsis:
The story of an innovator—architect Howard Roark—and his battle against the tradition-worshipping establishment. Its theme: "individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man's soul; the psychological motivations and the basic premises that produce the character of an individualist or a collectivist." Ayn Rand presented here for the first time her projection of the ideal man. Roark's independence, self-esteem, and integrity have inspired millions of readers for more than half a century(from the site http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_ fiction)
Links for this book:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/73de0d96-2bd2-4239-a2ae-10318de928 bb/Ayn-Rand-Fountainhead.zip
http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/the_fou ntainhead/
http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/books/rand/fountainhead/index.h tml
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Sale-Section/Literature/American -Classics/The-Fountainhead/1968
Member Comments:
Minnie( comments on this book "Howard Roarke, of the Fountainhead by Ann Ryand, helped me solve the identity crisis in my life.......that book taught me that being yourself and being proud of what you are is your greatest identity")
3)Name of the Book: THE JUNGLE BOOK
Author: Rudyard Kypling
Year: 1894
About the author:
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December1865 – 18 January1936) was a Britishauthor and poet, born in India, and best known for his children's books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906); his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and "If—" (1895); and his many short stories including, The Man Who Would Be King (1888) and the collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story,"[1]and his best work speaks to a versatile and luminous narrative gift.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling)
Synopsis:
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. He had accrued much knowledge about the jungle through listening to others and using research.
The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes two further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle" (The Long Recessional: the Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour, Pimlico 2003 ,best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler.
Links for this book:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/236
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/jngl-table.html
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book
4)Name of the Book: DAVID COPPERFIELD
Author: Charles Dickens
Year: 1850
About the author:
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February1812 – 9 June1870), pen-name "Boz", was an Englishnovelist. During his career Dickens achieved massive worldwide popularity, winning acclaim for his rich storytelling and memorable characters. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was the foremost novelist of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner
Synopsis:
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to do so.
Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman and would be influential in the genre such as Dickens's own Great Expectations (1861), Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.Tolstoy regarded Dickens as the best of all English novelists, and considered Copperfield to be his finest work, ranking the "Tempest" chapter (chapter 55,LV - the story of Ham and the storm and the shipwreck) the standard by which the world's great fiction should be judged. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_)
Links for this book:
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54dc /
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/texts/literature/englis h/1800-1899/dickens-david-626.txt
http://www.dickens-literature.com/David_Copperfield/index.ht ml
5))Name of the Book: THE ALCHEMIST
Author: Paulo Coelho
Year: 1988
About the author:
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1982 Coelho published his first book, Hell Archives, which failed to make any kind of impact. In 1985 he contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism, although he later tried to take it off the shelves, since he considered it "of bad quality". In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage.
Synopsis:
Every few decades a book is published that influences the life of its readers forever. Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist is such a book which has already achieved the status of a modern classic".
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation."
Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired millions of delighted readers around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who ventures from his homeland in Spain to North Africa in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a beautiful, young gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is or if Santiago can surmount the obstacles along the way through the desert. But what starts out as a boyish adventure to discover exotic places and worldly wealth turns into a quest for the treasures only found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, Santiago's story is an eternal testament to following our dreams and listening to our hearts.(
http://www.santjordi-asociados.com/alchemist.htm#brief)Links for this book:
The only downloadable link:
http://www.megashare.com/61251
(click this link,scroll down u fill find premiumaccount ,free account click on free account you will be taken to another page there some where in the mid of the page u will find download)
I really thank the books forum of orkut.com,I got the above link there.
6)Name of the Book: THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLIES
Author: Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
Year: 1902
About the author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle)
synopsis:
The Hound of the Baskervilles a tale of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was first published in serial form in 1901, then in book form in 1902. It's the story of an age-old curse and it's deadly ramifications to the Baskerville family. The mystery goes back generations, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case(http://classic***.about.com/cs/toppicks/tp/aatp_hound.htm)
Links for this book:
http://www.browzerbooks.com/freebo/hound.exe(This format is really intersting)
http://manybooks.net/titles/doyleartetext02bskrv11a.html
http://www.readbookonline.net/title/52/
7)Name of the Book: Books I have loved
Author: Shri Rajeesh
Year:1985
About the author:
Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (December 11, 1931 - January 19, 1990), better known during the 1970s as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later as Osho was an Indian spiritual teacher
Synopsis:
In a series of private talks, Osho talks on his favorite authors and books, and in a completely different way than is his public discourses. (http://www.osho.nl/New-Osho-NL/EnglBooks/BooksIHave.htm)
Member Comments:
Dr Abhijit Shukla says:
A few books of Rajneesh. (Anyone who thinks that they are on right path to figuring out life, should read at least 5 of his books (any five) just as a challange and then ask if one still believes in everything that one did before reading them) A book I would recommend is ironically 'Books I have loved.' In it he talks about books as widely differnt as Alice in the wonderland, Gita, My experiments with truth, Johnatahn livingston Seagul, Diwan-e-Ghalib and Quran. It is amazing how wide his interests were and how well he could grasp everything from philosophy to poetry to quantum physics.
Mythili Kiran: I'm very much intersted in reading the books of controversal persons and definitely Rajneesh is one among them.Till now I did'nt like his methods,books,style and I want to learn more things in life and so I thought I should See the good things in any person or method and neglect the unwanted things.I did'nt read this book but I will read it in a couple of days.My admiration for my esteemed friend made me think about Osho and his books.
Links for this book:
http://www.satrakshita.com/osho_boeken.htm
8)Name of the Book: In the Line Of Fire
Author: Mr Pervez Musharraf
Year: September 2006
About the author: Mr Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan.
Synopsis:
Mr Musharraf says
"This book is a window into contemporary Pakistan and my role in shaping it. I have lived a passionate life, perhaps an impetuous one in my early years, but always I have focused on self-improvement and the betterment of my country. Often I have been chastised for being too forthright and candid, and I trust you will find these qualities reflected here, I do not shy away from sensitive issues, circumscribed only by certain dictates of national security."
Links for this book:
http://www.freebooksource.com/free_ebooks/In-the-Line-of-Fir e.htm
(From this site we can download the books for free ,we see the details about this book,followed by some advertisements next we see download part1 part2 part3)
9)Name of the Book: The Prophet
Author: Mr Kahlil Gibran
Year: September 1923
About the author: Gibran Khalil Gibran
Poet, philosopher, artist, prophet and writer, Kahlil Gibran was born in Bsharri, Lebanon in 1883. He died in 1931 leaving an amazing legacy in the form of his writings and drawings which have soothed and inspired millions. To many he is a genius whose philosophical and prophetic style convey important messages about life and humanity in a simple, yet beautifully eloquent manner, that are as fresh and meaningful in today's world as when they were first written
Synopsis:
The Prophet is Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, his most celebrated statement about the truths of human experience. A brilliant man's philosophy on love, marriage, joy and sorrow, time, friendship and much more. Originally published in 1923 - translated into more than 20 languages. With 12 full page drawings by Gibran.
Links for this book:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/ba85e404-0813-42c2-b5cb-dc9eb336f6 9b/The-Prophet-By-Khalil-Gibran.pdf
http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibtable.html
10)Name of the Book: The Man-Eater of Malgudi
Author: Shri R.K.Narayan
Year: 1961
About the author:
R. K. Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001), born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami,[1] is among the well known and most widely read Indiannovelists writing in English.
R.K. Narayan was essentially a storyteller, whose sensitive, well-drawn portrayals of twentieth-century Indian life were set mostly in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Most of Narayan's work, starting with his first novel Swami and Friends (1935), captures many Indian traits while having a unique identity of its own. He was sometimes compared to the American writer William Faulkner, whose novels were also grounded in a compassionate humanism and celebrated the humour and energy of ordinary life.[2]
Narayan lived till ninety-four, writing for more than fifty years, and publishing till he was eighty seven. He wrote fourteen novels, five volumes of short stories, a number of travelogues and collections of non-fiction, condensed versions of Indian epics in English, and the memoir My Days.
Synopsis:
The Man-Eater of Malgudi is a 1961 novel by R.K. Narayan. It revolves around the life of a printer named Nataraj, who lives in a huge ancestral house. He leads a contented lifestyle, with his own circle of friends, such as Sen, the politician and Sastri, his assistant whom Nataraj respects very much. One day, a taxidermist named Vasu arrives at the office of Nataraj and demands the printing of 100 visiting cards. The story following it is very interesting.
Links for this book:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/50169423-ea32-48bf-8aef-a8f34e79b8 26/Man_eater_of_Malgudi-R_K_Narayan
http://www.esnips.com/doc/a381f400-5423-48e8-a639-af9a096473 %2039/Man-eater-of-Malgudi,-R.-K.-Narayan
11)Name of the Book: THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
Author: Arundhathi Roy
About the author: Good Indian Author and Social Activist
Synopsis:
Links for this book:
http://www.savefiles.net/d/khnbb583jwwrx.html
12)Name of the Book: CANDIDE
Author: Voltaire
Synopsis:
Links for this book:
http://www.savefiles.net/d/mjvvqkfyj4y3.html
13)Name of the Book: Swami and Friends
Author: Shri R.K.Narayan
Year: 1935
About the author:
R. K. Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001), born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami,[1] is among the well known and most widely read Indian novelists writing in English.
R.K. Narayan was essentially a storyteller, whose sensitive, well-drawn portrayals of twentieth-century Indian life were set mostly in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Most of Narayan's work, starting with his first novel Swami and Friends (1935), captures many Indian traits while having a unique identity of its own. He was sometimes compared to the American writer William Faulkner, whose novels were also grounded in a compassionate humanism and celebrated the humour and energy of ordinary life.[2]
Synopsis:
R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.
Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan's beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan's excitement about his country's initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. The Bachelor of Arts is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In The Dark Room, Narayan's portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husband's humiliations and trying to escape them. The title character in The English Teacher, Narayan's most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness.
These pioneering novels, luminous in their detail and refreshingly free of artifice, are a gift to twentieth-century literature. http://www.amazon.com/)
Links for this book:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/a57e8a67-8f01-4374-8cba-a475aab955 b3/Swami-and-Friends
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Special Offer with this book from Mythili:
Malgudi Days TV serial episodes online :
http://www.rajmahendra.com/2007/04/08/malgudi-days-by-rk-nar ayan-tv-series/
Malgudi Days TV serial episodes for download:
http://www.indianpad.com/story/48388
14)Name of the Book: The World as I see it
Author: Mr Albert Einstein
About the author : Wonderful human being and a great scientist
Synopsis:
The Einstein revealed in these writings is witty, keenly perceptive, and deeply concerned for humanity. Einstein believed in the possibility of a peaceful world and in the high mission of science to serve human well-being. As we near the end of a century in which science has come to seem more and more remote from human values, Einstein's perspective is indispensable. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Links to this book for download:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/670286c5-a9f2-4cce-9583-7f7fcdfe76 d5/Albert-Einstein---The-World-as-I-See-it
15) Name of the Book: The Stranger
Name of the Author : Albert Camus
Synopsis:
From Amazon.com
The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson
Links to the book for download:
http://www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/CAMUS,%20Albert%20-%20The% 20Stranger.pdf
http://www.esnips.com/doc/0906c5f3-0c13-4328-8e54-84007dd273 3d/Albert-Camus---The-Stranger
16) Name of the Book : The Seven Habits of Highly effective people
Name of the author : Stephen R Covey
Synopisis:
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http://www.stephencovey.com/store/product_info.php?product=1 8345 |
ephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top-seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its fifteenth year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey exploring the question of whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answering some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years. Links to the boof for freedownload:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/dc2ed6bc-863e-43e7-8951-c0902d8922 09/The-seven-habits-of-highly-effective-people
http://rapidshare.com/files/3385324/The.Seven.Habits.Of.High ly.Effective.People.rar
I will update this post with new books .
cheers,
Mythili Kiran
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