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نثر بے نظیر
By بہادر علی حسینی
Bahadur Ali Husaini's Peerless Prose (1802) retells in prose Mir Hasan's verse romance of Prince Benazir and the princess Badr-e-Munir. A fairy carries the sleeping prince to a garden where he first sees her, and the tale follows their separation, a long search and the dangers in between.
21 chapters · About 151 minutes of published text
نرالا عاشق
By مرزا فدا علی خنجر لکھنوی
Mirza Fida Ali Khanjar's Strange Lover is a nineteenth-century Lucknow novel built on an incident from the days when Wajid Ali Shah was still crown prince. It opens with a lament for the ruined houses of Lucknow and goes on, in twelve numbered chapters, in the plain narrative manner of the city's storytellers.
12 chapters · About 73 minutes of published text
نو طرز مرصع
By محمد حسین عطا خاں تحسین
Muhammad Husain Ata Khan Tahsin's Nau Tarz-e-Murassa (about 1775) is the first telling of the Four Dervishes tale in Urdu prose, a full generation before Bagh o Bahar. Four princes in dervish dress each tell how they lost everything, in the ornate, ornament-laden prose of the period.
5 chapters · About 290 minutes of published text
आकाश-दीप
By जयशंकर प्रसाद
The best known of Jaishankar Prasad's collections, in nineteen stories, opening with the title story, in which two captives meet aboard a ship far out at sea. Many of the tales are set in ancient India and its trading ports, others in his own Banaras.
19 chapters · About 126 minutes of published text
आदर्श हिंदू (तीसरा भाग)
By मेहता लज्जाराम शर्मा
The third and last part of Mehta Lajjaram Sharma's social novel, chapters forty-seven to seventy, in which the family's journey takes them to Jagannath at Puri and to the sea before the book draws its threads together. Sections on faith and household custom alternate with plain scenes of travel.
24 chapters · About 231 minutes of published text
आदर्श हिंदू (दूसरा भाग)
By मेहता लज्जाराम शर्मा
The second of three parts of Mehta Lajjaram Sharma's social novel, chapters twenty-four to forty-six. The household travels to Prayag, and the book looks at its pilgrims, beggars and priests, and at what the old religion asks of a family.
23 chapters · About 217 minutes of published text
आदर्श हिंदू (पहला भाग)
By मेहता लज्जाराम शर्मा
The first of three parts of a long social novel, the Ideal Hindu, by Mehta Lajjaram Sharma, which follows a married couple and their household through the customs, pilgrimages and quarrels of Hindu family life. Part one opens with their holiday in the hills and their wish for a son, and runs to chapter twenty-three.
23 chapters · About 219 minutes of published text
आँधी
By जयशंकर प्रसाद
Ten stories by Jaishankar Prasad, including the title story Aandhi and the well-known Madhua and Ghisu, tales of love, poverty and the hardness of town life told with a poet's eye.
10 chapters · About 125 minutes of published text
कटोरा भर खून
By देवकीनन्दन खत्री
A short novel in sixteen chapters by Devaki Nandan Khatri, the author of Chandrakanta, in the same manner of spies in disguise, secret passages and courts full of intrigue. The title means a bowlful of blood.
16 chapters · About 126 minutes of published text
कायाकल्प
By प्रेमचंद
A long novel of the 1920s that moves between a princely state and its court, the towns around it and several families drawn together by love, religious quarrels and politics. Premchand also weaves in a tale of rebirth that gives the book its title, which means a change of body.
57 chapters · About 660 minutes of published text
ग़बन
By प्रेमचंद
Ramanath, a young clerk in Allahabad, cannot bear to disappoint his bride Jalpa, who loves jewellery, and begins to spend and promise more than he earns. Premchand's 1931 novel follows what a vain little lie about money grows into, in a city of clerks, shopkeepers and the growing freedom movement; this edition is divided into fifteen long parts.
15 chapters · About 444 minutes of published text
गोदान
By प्रेमचंद
Hori, a poor tenant farmer in a village of Awadh, scrapes together the money to own a cow, then watches debts, moneylenders and caste custom take everything he has built. Premchand's last and greatest novel sets the peasant's long defeat beside a lighter story of the city intellectuals of Lucknow.
36 chapters · About 674 minutes of published text
चंद्रकांता संतति भाग 2
By देवकीनन्दन खत्री
Volume 2 of Chandrakanta Santati, Devaki Nandan Khatri's sequel to Chandrakanta and the novel that made many readers learn Hindi, covering bayans (chapters) 5 to 8. It follows the sons of the first book's heroes, Indrajeet Singh and Anand Singh, their loves, their spies in disguise and the secret vaults of rival kings. The Wikisource text of volume one is incomplete, so this volume begins in the middle of the story.
38 chapters · About 433 minutes of published text
चंद्रकांता संतति भाग 3
By देवकीनंदन खत्री
Volume 3 of Chandrakanta Santati, Devaki Nandan Khatri's sequel to Chandrakanta and the novel that made many readers learn Hindi, covering bayans (chapters) 9 to 12. It follows the sons of the first book's heroes, Indrajeet Singh and Anand Singh, their loves, their spies in disguise and the secret vaults of rival kings. The Wikisource text of volume one is incomplete, so this volume begins in the middle of the story.
43 chapters · About 475 minutes of published text
चंद्रकांता संतति भाग 4
By देवकीनन्दन खत्री
Volume 4 of Chandrakanta Santati, Devaki Nandan Khatri's sequel to Chandrakanta and the novel that made many readers learn Hindi, covering bayans (chapters) 13 to 16. It follows the sons of the first book's heroes, Indrajeet Singh and Anand Singh, their loves, their spies in disguise and the secret vaults of rival kings. The Wikisource text of volume one is incomplete, so this volume begins in the middle of the story.
48 chapters · About 473 minutes of published text
चंद्रकांता संतति भाग 5
By देवकीनन्दन खत्री
Volume 5 of Chandrakanta Santati, Devaki Nandan Khatri's sequel to Chandrakanta and the novel that made many readers learn Hindi, covering bayans (chapters) 17 to 20. It follows the sons of the first book's heroes, Indrajeet Singh and Anand Singh, their loves, their spies in disguise and the secret vaults of rival kings. The Wikisource text of volume one is incomplete, so this volume begins in the middle of the story.
59 chapters · About 465 minutes of published text
चंद्रकांता संतति भाग 6
By देवकीनंदन खत्री
Volume 6 of Chandrakanta Santati, Devaki Nandan Khatri's sequel to Chandrakanta and the novel that made many readers learn Hindi, covering bayans (chapters) 21 to 24. It follows the sons of the first book's heroes, Indrajeet Singh and Anand Singh, their loves, their spies in disguise and the secret vaults of rival kings. The Wikisource text of volume one is incomplete, so this volume begins in the middle of the story.
45 chapters · About 470 minutes of published text
तितली
By जयशंकर प्रसाद
A novel in four parts by the poet and dramatist Jaishankar Prasad about a village, a girl called Titli, and the landowners and educated men who come to change the countryside. Prasad brings to prose his gift for the feelings of his characters and the landscape around them.
28 chapters · About 307 minutes of published text
नव-निधि
By प्रेमचंद
Nine stories by Premchand, among them the Rajput tales Raja Hardaul and Rani Sarandha and moral stories of sacrifice and remorse. The title means the nine treasures, and the book shows the author's early taste for history and heroic example.
9 chapters · About 167 minutes of published text
निर्मला
By प्रेमचंद
Nirmala, a girl of fifteen, is engaged to a young man, but her father's sudden death leaves her mother unable to keep the match, and she is married instead to a middle-aged lawyer who already has grown sons. Premchand's short novel, first serialised in the magazine Chand in 1925-26, is a study of unequal marriage, suspicion and the dowry system.
25 chapters · About 262 minutes of published text
पाँच फूल
By प्रेमचंद
Five stories by Premchand from the collection Paanch Phool, including Mantra and Jihad, each a short tale of conscience and pride set among doctors, officers and townspeople.
5 chapters · About 92 minutes of published text
प्रेम-द्वादशी
By प्रेमचंद
Twelve of Premchand's stories, in the eighth edition of 1938, including Shatranj ke Khiladi, Panch Parmeshwar, Bade Ghar ki Beti and Atmaram. They range from a quarrel of two chess-playing nobles to village justice and family pride.
12 chapters · About 225 minutes of published text
प्रेम-पंचमी
By प्रेमचंद
Five stories by Premchand from the 1930 Ganga-Pustakmala edition: Mrityu ke Pichhe, Abhushan, Rajya-Bhakt, Adhikar-Chinta and Grih-Dah. Each is a quiet study of family, money and loyalty in the India of his time.
5 chapters · About 108 minutes of published text
प्रेमाश्रम
By प्रेमचंद
The peasants of a village in Awadh live under a landlord's agents who take their labour and their rents, while a young landowner returned from his studies hopes to set things right by goodwill. Premchand's 1922 novel, written in the years of the Gandhian movement, is his first large picture of the Indian peasantry and the men who rule it.
64 chapters · About 812 minutes of published text