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Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh (1915-2014)

journalist, politician, poet lawyer, diplomat, lawyer

  • St. Stephen's College, King's College London

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Truth, Love and a Little Malice
Gurus, Godmen & Good People
Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab
Ranjit Singh
The vintage sardar
Around the world with Khushwant Singh
Turbaned tornado
Good people, bad people
Khushwantnama The Lessons Of My Life
Mending souls
Indira Gandhi returns
Indira Gandhi returns
Portrait of a serial killer
Sikhs unlimited
The good, the bad and the ridiculous
Mahārājah Ranjīt Singh
Gurus, godmen, and good people
Me, the jokerman
Khushawanta Siį¹…gha
Train to Pakistan
Japujī
Delhi
A history of the Sikhs
India
Notes on the great Indian circus
The Illustrated History of the Sikhs
Memories of Madness
The end of India
Why I supported the emergency
Not a Nice Man to Know
Train to Pakistan
I shall not hear the nightingale
The company of women
Sights and sounds of the world
Mano Majra
The Sikhs
Khushwant Singh's big fat joke book
The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh
Paradise and other stories
Burial at sea
Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories
Malicious gossip
Land of the five rivers
Sex, scotch & scholarship
A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2
More malicious gossip
Khushwant Singh on women, love & lust
History of the Sikhs. v2
The collected novels
History of the Sikhs, vol 1
Train pour le Pakistan
How the Sikhs lost their kingdom
Homage to Guru Gobind Singh
Need for a new religion in India & other essays
We Indians
My bleeding Punjab
Gods and Godmen of India
Khushwant Singh's big book of malice
Women and Men in My Life
Khushwant Singh's Book of Unforgettable Women
City improbable
A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1
Death at my doorstep
The Sikhs today
Administrative problems, rural administration, and extension services
The voice of God
Administrative management, bureaucracy, and rural development and economics of development
Kalighat to Calcutta, 1690-1990
Pakistan express
Khushwant Singh's joke book
Khalsa Panth
Delhi
Black Jasmine ...
The mark of Vishnu and other stories
Nature watch
Khushwant Singh's India
Khushwant Singh's joke book 7
NaĢ„mĢ£ wicca kiĢ„ piaĢ„ e
Kipling's India
Pakistan mail
The unending trail
Stories from India
Many faces of communalism
Umrao Jan Ada
Religion of the Sikhs
A Sangam City
Kali Chambeli
Songs of the gurus
Pākistān Aikspres
Delhi
Khushwant Singh's view of India
Shri Ram: a biography
Khushwant Singh on women, sex, love and lust
Two essays on Professor S. Chandrasekhar
Agnostic Khushwant
Shri Ram
Rule of law, local government, and economics of development
Khushwant Singh on war and peace in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
A bride for the sahib and other stories
Khushwant Singh's India without humbug
Khushwant Singh's view of India
Not wanted in Pakistan
Mauj mela
The sunset club
Khushwant Singh's editor's page
Joke Book
I believe
Khushwant Singh's joke book
The mark of Vishnu, and other stories
Administrative reforms, Chinese communes, and local government
District administration, diffusion of technology, land reforms, and rural development
Chonvi Kahani
City Improbable
Sahibs Who Loved India
The voice of God, and other stories
The fall of the kingdom of the Punjab
I believe
Uncertain Liaisons
Celebrating the best of Urdu poetry
Our favourite Indian stories
Khushwant Singh's India without humbug
99
Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab
Train to Pakistan
Gurus, Godmen and good people
Delhi
Ranjit Singh
Not a nice man to know
The Sikhs today
A dream turns seventy five
I shall not hear the nightingale
Jannata
Khushwant Singh on war and peace in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
View of India
The Sikhs
The company of women
Not wanted in Pakistan
A history of the Sikhs
I shall not hear the nightingales
Khushwant Singh selects best Indian short stories
Homage to Guru Gobind Singh
Indira Gandhi
Black Jasmine
I shall not hear the nightingale
On India
I shall not hear the nightingale
The Courtesan of Lucknow
Sahibs who loved India
I shall not hear the nightingale
Uncertain liaisons
Khushwant Singh behtareen afsan
Ghadar, 1915, India's first armed revolution
History of the Sikhs, 1469-1839
Delhi: A Novel
On love and sex
Mano Majra
Sanseį¹­a Klaba
The mark of Vishnu
Khushwant Singh
Many moods many faces
Kampanī āf vūmin
The fall of the kingdom of the Punjab
On religion
Collected stories
Khushwant singh bahtreen tahreer
Khushwant Singh on humour
The voice of God
Unanswered prayers
Khushwant Singh's joke book II
Train to Pakistan
A bride for the sahib and other stories
A history of the Sikhs
Khushwant Singh's joke book III
Khushuwant Singh's India without humbug
The Japji and the Rehras
The freethinker's prayer book
Levin Schücking
Levin SchĆ¼cking (1814-1883)

journalist, librarian, poet lawyer

  • University of Gƶttingen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Rousseau's bekenntnisse
Annette von Droste
Luther in Rome
Die drei freier
Ein Sohn des Volkes: Roman
Lebenserinnerungen
Der Pandurenoberst
Die Bestechung
Die Marketenderin von KoĢˆln
Das malerische und romantische Westphalen
Die Bestechung
Paul Bronckhorst
Der Kampf im Spessart
Ausgewählte Romane
Der Familienschild
Der Dom zu Koln und seine Vollendung
Fire and flame
Die drei Grossmächte
Schloss Dornegge, oder, Der Weg zum Glück
Die Malerin aus dem Louvre
Das malerische und romantische Westfalen
Briefe
Eine dunkle That
Luther in Rom
Otto Friedrich Walter
Otto Friedrich Walter (1928-1994)

literary editor, poet

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Eine Insel finden
Time of the pheasant
Gegenwort
Das Staunen der Schlafwandler am Ende der Nacht
Die ersten Unruhen
Wie wird Beton zu Gras
Auf der Suche nach der anderen Schweiz
Die verlorene Geschichte
Pie XII
Der Stumme
Wie wird Beton zu Gras. Fast eine Liebesgeschichte
Zeit des Fasans
Die Verwilderung
Elio
Die ersttn Unruhen
Herr Tourel
Der Stumme, Roman
The mute
Udivlenie lunatikov na iskhode nochi
Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge (1844-1926)

poet

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Thirty years in Australia
Sisters
The three Miss Kings
Hymns on the Holy Communion
Woman's Friendship
The Hand in the Dark And Other Poems
A black sheep
Materfamilias
Hymns on the Litany, by A.C
Fidelis
The retrospect
A Marked Man: Some Episodes in His Life
A marked man
A humble enterprise
The Manor House And Other Poems
The Perversity of Human Nature
Not all in vain
A Little Minx: A Sketch
A mere chance
At Midnight And Other Stories
Unspoken thoughts
A woman's friendship
The devastators
A Marked Man (Australian Literary Heritage Series)
Path and goal
The eternal feminine
Hymns on the litany
In two years' time
Adam Naruszewicz
Adam Naruszewicz (1733-1796)

poet, historian, Catholic priest, Catholic deacon, Catholic bishop

  • Jesuit College in Pinsk, Akademia Wileńska

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Korespondencja Adama Naruszewicza, 1762-1796
Historya narodu polskiego
Satyry
Korespondencja Adama Naruszewicza, 1762-1796
Wiersze różne
Liryki wybrane
Gwido hrabia Blezu
Liryki wybrane
Poezje wybrane
Adam Naruszewicz
Satyry
Tauryka
Historya narodu polskiego
Dyjaryjusz podróży jego królewskiej mości na sejm grodzieński
Historya Narodu Polskiego od początku Chrześcianstwa
Historya Narodu Polskiego od początku Chrzescianstwa
Historya Narodu Polskiego - Z rękopisma Biblioteki Puławskiéy i Józefa hrabiego Sierakowskiego, staraniem i nakładem Towarzystwa Królewskiego Warszawskiego Przyiaciół Nauk wydana
Kraków za Stanisława Augusta
Poezje zebrane
Daniil Andreyev
Daniil Andreyev (1906-1959)

literary scholar, philosopher, poet

  • High Institute of Literature and Arts

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NoveiĢ†shiiĢ† Plutarkh
The rose of the world
Roza Mira
aIzbrannye proizvedeniiļø aļø” v 2 t., T. 1: Roza mira: metafizicheskiÄ­ traktat; T. 2: Russkie bogi:poeticheskiÄ­ ansamblŹ¹. Zheleznaiļø aļø” misteriiļø aļø”:poema
Izbrannye proizvedeniiļø aļø” v dvukh tomakh
Zheleznaiļø aļø” misteriiļø aļø”
Andegraund =
Sobranie sochineniiĢ† v trekh tomakh
RanŹ¹iļø uļø” zarevoiļø uļø”
ZamechatelŹ¹nye issledovateli gornoÄ­ SredneÄ­ Azii
Stikhi
Sobranie sochineniÄ­ v chetyrekh tomakh
Totò
TotĆ² (1898-1967)

comedian, playwright, lyricist, poet, composer, film actor, actor, singer

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Totò si nasce
Siamo uomini o caporali?
Totò
Ogni limite ha una pazienza
Parli come badi
TuttoTotoĢ€
Il teatro di TotoĢ€ (1932-1946)
'A livella
Quisquiglie e pinzillacchere
Mal costume mezzo gaudio
Johann Peter Eckermann
Johann Peter Eckermann (1792-1854)

poet, philosopher, teacher, librarian

  • University of Gƶttingen

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Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
Gede tan hua lu
Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens
Beiträge zur Poesie
Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens, 1823-1832
Gespräche mit Goethe
Beiträge zur Poesie: Mit besonderer Hinweisung auf Goethe
Gesprekken met Goethe
Sämtliche Werke, Briefe, Tagebücher und Gespräche, (Ln) 40 Bde., Bd.39, Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens
GespraĢˆche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens
Gespräche mit Goethe
Johann Peter Eckermann, Aphorismen
Words Of Goethe
Conversaciones Con Goethe
Conversaciones Con Goethe
Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens
Conversations with Goethe
Gesprache mit Goethe in den letzen Jahren seines Lebens, 1823-1832
Conversations with Goethe
Eckermann's conversations with Goethe
Conversations de Goethe avec Eckermann
Sein Leben fuĢˆr Goethe
Gedichte
Beyträge zur Poesie, mit besonderer Hinweisung auf Goethe
Gede dui hua lu
Conversaciones con Goethe. - 1. edición
GespraĢˆche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lehens
Conversaciones Con Goethe - 2 Tomos