The Ten Princes
Author: Dandin
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781258958381
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Author: Dandin
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781258958381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Author: Dandin
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 935118675X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDandin's work as a novelist, poet and pioneering theorist of literary style has secured for him an important place in classical Sanskrit literature. He lived in Kanchi, near present-day Chennai, in the period c. AD 650?750, during the Pallava rule. The Dasa Kumara Charitam is a prose romance recounting the exploits of Prince Rajavahana and his nine companions. Its colourful tales of adventure are notable for their ironic humour, amoral outlook and uninhibited descriptions of contemporary life and manners. A remarkable feature of the stories is the geographical sweep of their action, ranging from present-day Punjab to Kerala, Gujarat to Assam and all the way to the islands of the Indian Ocean. Also remarkable is the rich variety of characters and situations. Dandin vivifies each personage, major and minor, and provides lively accounts of assassinations, executions, dance festivals and royal assemblies, describes at length the training of a courtesan, and even the tools for burgling a house. Even though Tales of the Ten Princes can be enjoyed for its absorbing stories alone, it is also a wonderfully detailed sociological account of an important age in ancient India.
Author: Daṇḍin
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005-02
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780814762066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach of the ten princes has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the crown-prince. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent. Commentators have lambasted Dandin's heroes for their antiheroic, apparently random, escapades, while in fact the architecture of his plot reveals an elegant, instructive construction. What Ten Young Men Did is a coming-of-age novel from the seventh century CE. In combat and in the bedroom, ten individuals juggle virtue and vice on their heroic progress from adolescence to maturity. Dandin’s work is autobiographical in two senses: each of the young men narrates their personal experiences, while the author could not have written with such confident realism had he not had many of the same picaresque adventures in his native South India and beyond. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
Author: Dandin
Publisher: Global Vision Pub House
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9788182200203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dasakumara-Charita Is A Katha Type Of Prose-Poetic Of Romance Written By Dandin. Avoiding The Highly Styled Prose Of Banabhatta, He Found Inspiration In The Brhatkatha To Write On Social Themes Embodying Tales Of Adventure And Romance Of The Ten Princes, Who Are The Heroes Of This Work. The Framework Of The Narratives Is Simple. It Relates To Ten Princes, Sons Of Ministers Included, Who Got SepaRated With A Plan To Meet At Ujjayini Again. Dandin Shows In This Romance Great Powers Of Characterisation As Also He Draws Realistic Scenes Of Life. His Style Is Easy And Unaffected And Full Of Wit And Humour.
Author: Garth Nix
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0062213563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGarth Nix, bestselling author of the Keys to the Kingdom series and Shade’s Children, combines space opera with a coming-of-age story in his YA novel A Confusion of Princes. Superhuman. Immortal. Prince in a Galactic Empire. There has to be a catch…. Khemri learns the minute he becomes a Prince that princes need to be hard to kill—for they are always in danger. Their greatest threat? Other Princes. Every Prince wants to become Emperor and the surest way to do so is to kill, dishonor, or sideline any potential competitor. There are rules, but as Khemri discovers, rules can be bent and even broken. There are also mysteries. Khemri is drawn into the hidden workings of the Empire and is dispatched on a secret mission. In the ruins of space battle, he meets a young woman, called Raine, who challenges his view of the Empire, of Princes, and of himself. But Khemri is a Prince, and even if he wanted to leave the Empire behind, there are forces there that have very definite plans for his future.
Author: Nancy Gow
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781402763960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lovely princess with enormous feet and a charming prince with a huge nose meet on a ski lift and, while their flaws are hidden, fall in love.
Author: Mike Brownlow
Publisher:
Published: 2025-04-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780316585194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCount down from ten princesses to one with help from charming princes, adorable ponies, and a fairy godmother! Ten little princesses, going to the ball, Trotting on their ponies, past the castle wall. Ten little princesses are all dressed up and excited for the special ball. But on their journey there, they run into all sorts of trouble, from a wicked witch and a spooky forest to a hungry giant and a fire-breathing dragon! How will these princesses ever get to the ball on time? Get your magic wand and glass slippers ready because with plenty of magical things to count on every page, this bouncing rhyming story will have your little one wanting to read it again and again!
Author: Dandin
Publisher:
Published: 1846
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Goolrick
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1616205385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A heart-wrenching, beautiful, darkly comic, deeply necessary tale that stuns again and again with razor-sharp prose and glittering wit. Robert Goolrick is, without question, one of the greatest storytellers of our time.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife In the spellbinding new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Goolrick, 1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone. Until, one by one, they fall. Goolrick’s literary chops are on full display, painting an authentic portrait of a hedonistic era, tense and stylish, perfectly mixing adrenaline and melancholy. Stunning in its acute observations about great wealth and its absence, and deeply moving in its depiction of the ways in which these men learn to cope with both extremes, it’s a true tour de force. “An addictive slice of semiautobiographical fiction . . . Goolrick vividly plumbs the depths of fortune and regret. The result is a compulsively readable examination of the highs and lows of life in the big city.” —Publishers Weekly “A compelling, wholly seductive narrative voice . . . Goolrick’s stellar prose infuses this redemption story with a good deal of depth and despair, making it read like the literary version of The Wolf of Wall Street.” —Booklist “A dark, intoxicating morality tale . . . With his impeccable prose, Goolrick focuses his unflinching eye on the grittiness beneath the sleek facade of nightclubs, fashion, and monied Manhattan extravagance. Beautifully crafted, seductive, and provocative.” —Garth Stein, author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain