221B Baker Street. The most beloved fictional detective is in pursuit of the absolute truth. Dr. Watson, his sidekick and biographer, cannot help but marvel at his friend’s impeccable logic and scientific acumen in unravelling the mysteries of crimes that have besieged London. What Holmes thinks elementary, Watson finds extraordinary. In The Sign of Four, Holmes takes up a peculiar case which revolves around a stolen treasure, the mystery of a secret pact between four convicts and an anonymous benefactor who sends pearls to Mary Morstan (Dr. Watson’s future wife) as an act of atonement. In ‘The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor’, Holmes is grappling with an unusual problem where a bride has disappeared on her own wedding day; in ‘The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet’, a client leaves a beryl coronet with a banker; and ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’ intrigues our detective when he learns that a local landowner has been murdered and all fingers point at the son but he knows that the real culprit is someone else. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes add value to this keepsake edition of Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories 1.


Born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE started writing stories as a student. With a repertoire of over thirty books, hundred and fifty short stories, essays, plays and poems, he earned the distinction of being one of the greatest short story writers ever, since Edgar Allan Poe. A master of all literary genres, his memorable creation is the invincible sleuth Sherlock Holmes whom the readers are introduced to in his first novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). Such was the charisma of this Great Detective that when the author decided to kill Holmes in ‘His Last Bow’ (1893), he was compelled to bring Holmes back after vociferous demands from readers. A two-volume com- pendium, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories 1 comprises some

of the significant adventures of the iconoclastic detective—‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band,’ ‘The Musgrave Ritual,’ ‘A Scandal in Bohemia,’ and ‘The Five Orange Pips’ among others. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes adds another dimension to this comprehensive collection.

A war correspondent, a spiritualist, an athlete and a historian, the author was knighted for his contribution in a South African field hospital during the Boer War in 1902. He died on 7 July 1930 in Crowborough, Sussex.

The Sacred Indian Tarot is a compilation of Indian mysticism as well as the ancient spiritual powers of Tarot. This Tarot card set is considered to be a wonderful blending of two different mystic worlds and this amalgamation is said to improve spiritual prowess.

The Sacred Indian Tarot is a comprehensive guide that offers a better understanding on the secrets of Indian mythology, by combining it with Tarot. It is believed to provide peace and tranquility to those who read and meditate with the decks. This is an apt acquisition for those seeking to unburden their minds and spiritual guidance.

The decks are designed such that they are in perfect harmony with the depictions Indian mythological tales like that of the Ramayana and Mahabharata. These decks can be used to meditate as well as to read. The book was published by Om Books in 2011 and is available as a set of 22 cards.



Kiren Rai's tryst with the Tarots began 20 years ago, when she was introduced to the craft by a famous psychic and Tarot reader in East Africa, where she lived in the early part of her life. Her experience with the Tarot has been wonderfully positive, empowering her and helping her connect with the most essential parts of herself. She has explored various decks and found esoteric similarities in the symbols. This inspired her to put together an Indian deck of cards, replacing the traditional Tarot archetypes with Indian images and symbols. She believes that this mosaic of Indian cards, created by upcoming Indian artists, should be shared with a broader horizon of people.

"The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) originally published in German as Die Traumdeutung is considered Sigmund Freud’s masterpiece. According to Freud, dreams are manifestations of repressed desires, and have an underlying meaning. He suggests methods of interpreting dreams ̶ ‘imaginary wish fulfillments’ ̶ by exploring the process of dream formation in the absence of censorship, the role of the unconscious in this process, the distortions of subconscious desires in their transpositions in dreams, and more, through several case studies and his own dreams. He, thus, proposes the radical idea that the unconscious can be understood through an analysis of dreams. In this seminal work, Freud also introduces the concept of ‘Oedipus Complex’, which was to become one of Freud’s most controversial ideas. The Interpretation of Dreams was reprinted seven times during Freud’s lifetime, and has been the subject of much debate and speculation ever since."


SIGMUND FREUD, born on 6 May 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire, was a famous Austrian neurologist and arguably one of the most significant contributors to the field of Psychology. He was the founder of Psychoanalysis, a theory that influenced fields beyond Psychology and dominated the 20th century consciousness.
Through Psychoanalysis, Freud introduced groundbreaking therapeutic techniques such as free association and transference, and introduced revolutionary concepts such as the theory of the unconscious and Oedipus complex, which remains one of Freud's most controversial ideas. His major works include Studies on Hysteria (1895), The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), and Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905).
After the Nazi invasion of Austria, Freud had to flee to England. However, his ideas and theories remained prevalent despite being challenged often throughout the 20th century. Freud died on 23 September 1939, aged 83.

"This urge for maintenance of the unmixed breed, which is a phenomenon that prevails throughout the whole of the natural world, results not only in the sharply defined outward distinction between one species and another but also in the internal similarity of characteristic qualities which are peculiar to each breed and species. [...] That is why the struggle between various species does not arise from a feeling of mutual antipathy but rather from hunger and love. In both cases, nature looks on calmly and is even pleased with what happens. The struggle for daily livelihood leaves behind in the ruck everything that is weak or diseased or wavering; while the fight of the male to possess the female gives to the strongest, the right, or at least the possibility, to propagate. And this struggle is a means
of furthering the health and powers of resistance in the species. Thus it is one of the causes underlying the process of development towards a higher quality of being. If the case were different, the progressive process would cease, and even retrogression might set in. Since the inferior always outnumber the superior, the former would always increase more rapidly if they possessed the same capacity for survival and for procreation of their kind; and the final consequence would be that the best in quality would be forced to recede in the background. Therefore a corrective measure in favour of better quality must intervene. Nature supplies this by establishing rigorous conditions of life to which the weaker will have to submit and will thereby be numerically restricted...
— Adolf Hitler"

AUTHOR'S PREFACE On April 1, 1924, I began to serve my sentence of detention in the of Landsberg am Lech, following the verdict of the Munich People's Court of that time After years of uninterrupted labour it was now possible for the first time to begin a work which many had asked for and which I myself felt would be profitable for the movement. So I decided to devote two volumes to a description not only of the aims of our movement but also of its devclopment. There is more to be learned from this than from any purely doctrinaire treatise. This has also given me the opportunity of describing my own development in so far as such a description is necessary to the understanding of the first as well as the second volume and to destroy the legendary fabrications which the Jewish Press have circulated about me. In this work I turn not to strangers but to those followers of the movement whose hearts belong to it and who wish to study it more profoundly. I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers. Nevertheless, in order to produce more equality and uniformity in the defence of any doctrine, its fundamental principles must be committed to writing. May these two volumes therefore serve as the building stones which I contribute to the joint work. The Fortress, Landsberg am Lech

It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of mynumerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. [...] Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without selfpurification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification, therefore, must mean purification in all walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one’s surroundings. But the path to self-purification is hard and steep. To attain perfect purity, one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet the triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world’s praise fails to move me; indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me far harder than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. Ever since my return to India, I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated though not defeated. The experiences and experiments have sustained me
and given me great joy. But I know I still have before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI (1869-1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the movement to free India from British rule. He was the pioneer of satyagraha, resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy founded upon total nonviolence, which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

At the young age of 13, Anne Frank and her family, comprising her parents and her elder sister Margot went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse to escape forceful deportation by the Nazis. For the next two years, the Franks along with another family of three and a single boarder shared the closed confines of this ‘Secret Annexe.’ In August 1944, the inmates were betrayed, arrested and cruelly torn apart by the circumstances that followed.

Anne had been gifted a diary on her 13th birthday. The diary became her closest friend and confidante during the years in hiding and here she recorded her feelings and experiences with utmost honesty. It is believed that Anne wanted to publish a book based on her diary. Otto Frank, Anne’s father was the only member of the family who survived the war and the horrors of the Holocaust. To fulfill the wishes of his daughter, he decided to publish her diary. The entries in the diary over the two years, reveal the blossoming of a child into a young adult, the reason why it makes for one of the most heartrending chronicles of literature. The readers cannot help but wonder about the kind of woman and writer Anne could have grown up to be.

Set against one of the most dramatic episodes of world history­ The Holocaust, a brilliant comingofage story that has and will continue to find appeal with every generation of readers. An international bestseller, worldwide readership/market lovers of biographies and general fiction, historians, journalists, sociologists, documentary filmmakers, cultural and educational institutions, libraries, general trade readers.

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ n lis ma ri n fr k], German: [ an li s ma i an f a k] ( listen); 12 June 1929 early March 1945) was a diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (probably of typhus) in March 1945. Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved by one of the helpers, Miep Gies, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch version and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.

They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to seven commandments. These seven commandments would now be inscribed on the wall, they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after. With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint-pot. The commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. These were followed till the day it was understood that: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others..."

Eric Arthus Blair, (George Orwell), was born in 1903 Motihari, a British colony of India. He accompanied his mother to England at the age of one. He studied at St Cyprian's School, in Eastbourne, Sussex before earning scholarships to Wellington and Eton colleges. At Eton, he was a King's Scholar from 1917 to 1921. Thereafter, he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in 1922. He returned to England in 1928 and wrote of his hatred of imperialism in Burmese Days. In 1933, he adopted Bengal, his pen name, George Orwell while writing for the New Adelphi Orwell lived for several years in poverty, as he recalled in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). He eventually worked as a schoolteacher and a part-time assistant in a second-hand bookshop in Hampstead, an experience recounted in Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). Soon after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Orwell fought for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalist uprising. Homage to Catalonia is Orwell's account of the civil war Orwell was shot in the neck on May 20, 1937, an experience he described in his short essay Wounded by a Fascist Sniper, as well as in Homage to Catalonia, and returned to England in 1938. Until 1940, Orwell wrote book reviews for the New English Weekly. During World War II he was a member of the Home Guard and in 1941 began working for the BBC Eastern Service. He resigned in 1943 to become literary editor of Tribune, in which he contributed a regular column entitled As I Please In 1945, Orwell's anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm was published to great critical acclaim. From 1945, Orwell was the Observers var correspondent and later contributed regularly to the Manchester Evening News. In 1949, his best-known work, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. Orwell's writings straddled several genres: fiction, polemical journalism, literary criticism and poetry, essays on politics, literature, language and culture. Several of his neologisms are part of our everyday vocabulary today For the last three years of his life, Orwell was in and out of hospitals. He Died om 21st January, 1950 at the age of 46 from tuberculosis.

There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being or it loses its own self- confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factors is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.

Eric Arthus Blair, (George Orwell), was born in 1903 Motihari, a British colony of India. He accompanied his mother to England at the age of one. He studied at St Cyprian's School, in Eastbourne, Sussex before earning scholarships to Wellington and Eton colleges. At Eton, he was a King's Scholar from 1917 to 1921. Thereafter, he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in 1922. He returned to England in 1928 and wrote of his hatred of imperialism in Burmese Days. In 1933, he adopted Bengal, his pen name, George Orwell while writing for the New Adelphi Orwell lived for several years in poverty, as he recalled in Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). He eventually worked as a schoolteacher and a part-time assistant in a second-hand bookshop in Hampstead, an experience recounted in Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). Soon after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Orwell fought for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalist uprising. Homage to Catalonia is Orwell's account of the civil war Orwell was shot in the neck on May 20, 1937, an experience he described in his short essay Wounded by a Fascist Sniper, as well as in Homage to Catalonia, and returned to England in 1938. Until 1940, Orwell wrote book reviews for the New English Weekly. During World War II he was a member of the Home Guard and in 1941 began working for the BBC Eastern Service. He resigned in 1943 to become literary editor of Tribune, in which he contributed a regular column entitled As I Please In 1945, Orwell's anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm was published to great critical acclaim. From 1945, Orwell was the Observers var correspondent and later contributed regularly to the Manchester Evening News. In 1949, his best-known work, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. Orwell's writings straddled several genres: fiction, polemical journalism, literary criticism and poetry, essays on politics, literature, language and culture. Several of his neologisms are part of our everyday vocabulary today For the last three years of his life, Orwell was in and out of hospitals. He Died om 21st January, 1950 at the age of 46 from tuberculosis.

The Little Prince is one of the most popular and widely translated classics written for children and grown-ups.

While trying to repair his crashed aeroplane in the middle of the Sahara desert, an airman meets a little boy-The Little Prince-originally an inhabitant of asteroid B-612 where he would diligently remove small baobabs as soon as they appeared, and where he has left behind three volcanoes and a rose.

Before reaching Earth, he visits other planets and meets a string of oddballs: a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a lamplighter, a geographer...

An enjoyable read on the Little Prince's intergalactic travels, this book is also a deep reflection on human nature.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in 1900 in Lyons, France. He completed his early education in France and Switzerland. Unable to clear his final exam at a university preparatory school, he enrolled himself at the École des Beaux-Arts to study Architecture. After failing the entrance exam for the Naval Academy, he decided to go for aviation. In 1921, he joined the French Air Force where he first learned to fly a plane. Five years later, he left the French Air Force to begin flying air mail between remoter settlements in the Sahara desert.



When World War II broke out, Saint-Exupéry rejoined the French Air Force. After Nazi troops occupied France in 1940, Saint-Exupéry fled to the United States. He had hoped to join the U.S. war effort as a fighter pilot, but was turned down because of his age. Instead, he drew upon his experiences in the Sahara desert to write and illustrate what would become his most famous book, The Little Prince (1943).



Shortly after completing the book, Saint-Exupéry returned to North Africa to fly a warplane for his country. On July 31, 1944, Saint-Exupéry took off on a mission. He was never seen again.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.

Brain development in the early years is critical to developing a child's learning ability. In a child, the right brain develops first. Our right brain is in charge of creative, social, visual skills and intuition, while the left side is analytical, logical, detail oriented and everything grown-up. Hence, it becomes crucial to provide an environment to a child that is conducive to developing their curiosity, imagination and wonder rather than putting too much emphasis on academia.