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"The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago"

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 11:01 am
"The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago" "Single" eBook / 4,358 pages / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Boston, New York / December 2010 DOWNLOAD LINK Introduction by: Ursula Leguin Translated by: Margaret Jull Costa and Giovanni Pontiero This collection, available exclusively in "eBook" form, brings to...
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"Gateway to the Great Books" (10 Vols.)

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 10:54 am
“Gateway to the Great Books” (10 Vols.) Editors in Chief: ROBERT M. HUTCHINS, MORTIMER J. ADLER Associate Editor: CLIFTON FADIMAN ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA, INC. / 1990 / 10 Vols. / 5,000 pages Download Link “Gateway to the Great Books” is a 10-volume se...
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ULYSSES ~ James Joyce

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 10:51 am
ULYSSES ~ James Joyce Planet PDF; 1305 pages Download Link One of the most important works of Modernist literature, it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses totals about 265,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,030 words (including proper names, plurals and ...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI / THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 10:46 am
HARUKI MURAKAMI / THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE Vintage Books / Translated by: Jay Rubin / 1997 / 364 pp Download Link Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and ...
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THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE / Orhan Pamuk

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 10:39 am
THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE / Orhan Pamuk Translated by Maureen Freely / Alfred A. Knopf / 2009 / 328 pp Download Link Nobel laureate Pamuk's latest novel is a soaring, detailed and laborious mausoleum of love. During Istanbul's tumultuous 1970s, Kemal Bey, 30-year-old son of an upper-class fam...
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"In Cold Blood" ~ Truman Capote

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 10:35 am
“In Cold Blood” ~ Truman Capote Download Link On November 15, 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were dragged from their beds in the early hours of the morning and tied up. All four were shot in the head with a shotgun at close range. None surviv...
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Italo Calvino ~ "Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories"

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 10:30 am
Italo Calvino ~ "Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories" PUBLISHED BY : ALFRED A. KNOPF, CANADA / Translation by : Tim Parks 1995 / 300 pp Download Link FABLES AND STORIES 1943–1958 The Man Who Shouted Teresa, The Flash, Making Do, Dry River, Conscience, Solidarity, The Black Sheep, Good for N...
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Margaret Atwood ~ "Dancing Girls and Other Stories"

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 10:24 am
Margaret Atwood ~ "Dancing Girls and Other Stories" Download Link This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood’s startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still mis-communicate, still remain separate in different...
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"Encyclopedia Of Feminist Literature (Literary Movements)"

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 8, 2011, 9:54 am
Mary Ellen Snodgrass, “Encyclopedia Of Feminist Literature (Literary Movements)” Facts on File | 2006 | 785 pp | p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration...
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"Modern Arabic Fiction - An Anthology" Edited by: Salma Khadra...

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 1, 2011, 2:11 pm
"Modern Arabic Fiction - An Anthology" Edited by: Salma Khadra Jayyusi Columbia University Press • New York 2010 / 1,080 pages Download Link Beginning with the late-nineteenth-century cultural resurgence and continuing through the present day, short stories and novels have given voice to the pers...
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Naguib Mahfouz ~ "Palace Walk" _Translated by William Maynard Hutchins...

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 1, 2011, 1:34 pm
Naguib Mahfouz ~ "Palace Walk" _Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny_ Download Link This first volume in the 1988 Nobel Prize winner's "Cairo Trilogy" describes the disintegrating family life of a tyrannical, prosperous merchant, his timid wife and their rebelliou...
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Margaret Atwood ~"Oryx and Crake" AN IMPRINT OF DOUBLEDAY ~...

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - Feb 1, 2011, 1:13 pm
Margaret Atwood ~"Oryx and Crake" AN IMPRINT OF DOUBLEDAY ~ a division of Random House, Inc. Download Link In "Oryx and Crake", a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world...
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"The Joke" ~ Milan Kundera

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 28, 2010, 11:02 am
“The Joke” ~ Milan Kundera Publisher: Harper Perennial; Publication Date: 1993-04-14 Download Link All too often, this novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after, “The Joke” was first publishe...
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J.M. Coetzee ~ "Age of Iron"

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 17, 2010, 12:06 pm
J.M. Coetzee ~ “Age of Iron” Download Link ~ Harsh, unflinching and powerful, Coetzee’s new novel is a cry of moral outrage at the legacy that apartheid has created in South Africa. In scenes of stunning ferocity, he depicts the unequal warfare waging between the two races, a conf...
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J.M. Coetzee ~ "Disgrace"

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 17, 2010, 10:06 am
J.M. Coetzee ~ “Disgrace” Download Link ~ David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else’s. At 52, the protagonist of “Disgrace” is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern lan...
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"The Slave Girl and Other Stories" ~ (Central European Classics)

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 16, 2010, 12:05 pm
“The Slave Girl and Other Stories” ~ (Central European Classics) ~ By Ivo Andric Publisher: CentralEuropeanUniversity; Publication Date: 2009-09-10 Download Link This is a string of newly translated as well as already published stories by the classic Serbian author o...
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"Modern Arabic Literature" ~ (The History of Arabic Literature)

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 16, 2010, 11:37 am
“Modern Arabic Literature” ~ (The History of Arabic Literature) ~ By M.M. Badawi Publisher: CambridgeUniversity Press; Publication Date: 1993-01-29 Download Link This volume of the “History of Arabic Literature” presents the first authoritative, comprehensive, cri...
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"E. E. Cummings" (Bloom's Major Poets)

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 16, 2010, 10:54 am
“E. E. Cummings” (Bloom’s Major Poets) By Harold Bloom Publisher: Chelsea House Publications; Publication Date: 2003-05 Download Link The myth of E.E. Cummings stressed isolation, the difficulty of love, and the realities of death. This volume includes extracts from critical essays that examin...
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Italo Calvino ~ "Cosmicomics"

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 16, 2010, 10:34 am
Italo Calvino ~ “Cosmicomics” Download Link An enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. Calvino makes characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves amongst galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, ...
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"2666" ~ Roberto Bolano

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 14, 2010, 11:17 am
“2666” ~ Roberto Bolano Download Link It was one thing to read Roberto Bolano’s novel “The Savage Detectives” and have your mind thrilled and expanded by a sexy, meandering masterpiece born whole into the English language. It was still another to read it and know, from the adv...
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"Reading Modernist Poetry" ~ By Michael H. Whitworth

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 14, 2010, 10:50 am
“Reading Modernist Poetry” ~ By Michael H. Whitworth Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Publication Date: 2010-05-10 Download Link This essential guide to “modernist poetry” enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Close...
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"Mean" (Phoenix Poets) ~ By Colette LaBouff Atkinson

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 14, 2010, 10:10 am
“Mean” (Phoenix Poets) ~ By Colette LaBouff Atkinson Publisher: University of Chicago; Publication Date: 2008-10-15 Download Link In the appropriately titled “Mean”, Colette LaBouff Atkinson’s speakers confront a series of cruel lovers, estranged ex-husbands and ex-w...
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"The Nibelungenlied" ~ By Cyril. S.

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on /Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"} - May 14, 2010, 8:44 am
“The Nibelungenlied” ~ By Cyril. S. Publisher: Oxford University Press; Publication Date: 2010-04-15 Download Link The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the “Nibelungenlied” is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-...
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Alcoholics Anonymous The 'BIG BOOK'

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 24, 2008, 4:24 am
You can read the Alcoholics Anonymous 'BIG BOOK' here, and download it in pdf format... http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/
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Types of bipolar disorder

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 24, 2008, 3:40 am
The course of bipolar disorder varies widely from person to person, with unpredictable differences in the pattern and frequency of the manic and depressive episodes. Some people are more prone to either mania or depression, while others alternate equally between the two types of episodes. Some have ...
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A.A. the Serenity Prayer

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 23, 2008, 2:02 pm
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I Cannot change… Courage to change the things I can... And Wisdom to know the difference…
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The AA Promises

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 23, 2008, 1:56 pm
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will kn...
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Are You An Alcoholic?

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 23, 2008, 1:53 pm
You might like to take the following test, developed by the World Health Organisation. To calculate your score add the figures up in the left-hand column. A score of eight or more suggests a drink problem. 1. How often do you drink alcohol? (0) Never (1) Monthly ...
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What is Alcoholics Anonymous?

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 23, 2008, 1:50 pm
"Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues ...
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How people beat the demon drink

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 23, 2008, 1:37 pm
Millions of people suffer from alcohol problems ranging from heavy drinking to dependency. It is estimated that just one in 10 have treatment for their drinking. For the heavy drinkers, common treatment may involve a consultation with their GP or brief counselling from an alcohol specialist. But i...
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Bipolar Disorder

Satheesh Balachandran posted an article on Zen Buddha & a Lonely Snail - Dec 23, 2008, 1:07 pm
We all experience shifts in our mood: some days we feel happy and ready to take on the world; other days can be discouraging, filled with sadness and frustration. Our emotional state of being varies constantly, and can fluctuate between these two extremes on a daily basis. Although some fluctuation ...
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SATHEESH BALACHANDRAN
GURUVAYUR/ TRICHUR, KERALA, INDIA Interests: Schizophrenia, Metaphysics, Existentialism, Autism... Andrzej Tarkovsky... Ingmar Bergman... Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera... M.D. Ramanathan, Kumar Gandharva... J.S. Bach, Wagner... satheeshgvr@gmail.com
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