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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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
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. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
64 chapters · About 812 minutes of published text
बिखरे मोती
By सुभद्रा कुमारी चौहान
Fifteen stories by the poet Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, first published in 1932, mostly about women and the household: a childless wife, a fisherman's daughter, a village girl. The title means scattered pearls.
15 chapters · About 141 minutes of published text
माधवराव सप्रे की कहानियाँ
By माधवराव सप्रे
Four short pieces of fiction by Madhavrao Sapre, among them Ek Tokri Bhar Mitti (1901), often named as the first short story in Hindi. A small, historically important collection from the very beginning of the Hindi story.
4 chapters · About 40 minutes of published text
मानसरोवर १
By प्रेमचंद
The first volume of Mansarovar, the collected stories of Premchand, gathers twenty-seven tales of village and town life, among them Idgah, a small boy's day at the festival fair, Thakur ka Kuan and Poos ki Raat. The stories of poor farmers, widows, clerks and children show the ordinary India of Premchand's years with plain sympathy. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
27 chapters · About 451 minutes of published text
रंगभूमि
By प्रेमचंद
Surdas, a blind beggar of Banaras, owns a small field at the edge of town, and when a rich manufacturer wants it for a cigarette factory the old man refuses to give it up. Premchand's long novel of 1925 sets the beggar's stubborn dignity against the money, machines and officials of colonial India, with a large cast of townspeople around him. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
50 chapters · About 1,021 minutes of published text
वेनिस का बाँका
By अयोध्या सिंह उपाध्याय 'हरिऔध' (translated by अयोध्या सिंह उपाध्याय 'हरिऔध')
A romance of Venice and its secret council, written in 1888 by the poet Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay Hariaudh as a recasting, by way of an Urdu version, of an English tale. This is the 1928 edition, in twenty-four chapters after the author's prefaces.
24 chapters · About 164 minutes of published text
सप्तसरोज
By प्रेमचंद
Premchand's first collection of stories in Hindi, published in 1917, holds seven tales including Bade Ghar ki Beti, Panch Parmeshwar and Namak ka Daroga. It is where many readers first meet his clear, humane way of telling a story about honesty, pride and village life. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
7 chapters · About 99 minutes of published text