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Through the history of civilization, men have always told stories. Sometimes these have taken the form of prose, like the novels of Charles Dickens sometimes, as in the case of Homer`s Iliad, they have taken the form of poetry.
Literature serves different purposes for different readers. Some read for pleasure, others read for meaningful instruction. New Horizons, a short collection of stories, poems and narratives on the lives of well-known personalities, aims to serve both purposes. This carefully compiled ion provides a glimpse into the world of great personalities and their accomplishments, with the hope that readers may come to appreciate them too.
Oscar Wilde`s well-known short story, `The Happy Prince`, contrasts the extreme poverty of the underprivileged in with the self-absorbed lives of the rich, a reality we are all too familiar with in India. The chapter on the life of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose sheds light on his many avatars: that of scientist, naturalist, archaeologist and an author of science fiction. The poem `Daffodils` by William Wordsworth reminds us of the pleasures of solitude.ISBN - 9789332522084
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