The Five and Twenty Tales of the Genie

📂 Standards 🏛 Penguin 🌐 English ⚖ 456 KB

Half mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor Vikramaditya is widely regarded as India's greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler's fabled encounter with a vetala, a genie who inhabits the body of a corpse. The emperor begs the spirit for his help against a mighty necromanc

Listen, o king!: five-and-twenty tales of Vikram and the vetal

✍ Agarwal, Deepa;Śivadāsa 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd; Puffin 🌐 English ⚖ 116 KB

'If you know the answer and do not respond, your head will shatter into pieces!' In a land of glorious kings, bloodthirsty demons and talking spirits, was born the lore of Vikram and the Vetal. After a series of mysterious events, King Vikramaditya carries the vetal, a witty ghost, on a long journey

Listen, O King: Five-and-Twenty Tales of Vikram and the Vetal

✍ Sivadasa 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd;PENGUIN Books INDIA 🌐 English ⚖ 115 KB

'If you know the answer and do not respond, your head will shatter into pieces!' In a land of glorious kings, bloodthirsty demons and talking spirits, was born the lore of Vikram and the Vetal. After a series of mysterious events, King Vikramaditya carries the vetal, a witty ghost, on a long journey

Tales of the Five Towns

✍ Arnold Bennett 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Duke Classics 🌐 English ⚖ 105 KB

British author Arnold Bennett's most acclaimed and enduring works are a series of novels set around the Potteries district of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, his native region. This volume of short stories delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns" that Bennett exp

The Twenty-Five Cent Aspirin

✍ Ronald R. Kovener 📂 Article 📅 1967 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 128 KB

The Wrong Side of Twenty-Five

✍ Armitage, Kate 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Crooked Cat Books 🌐 English ⚖ 127 KB