Prose for Our Times
- ISBN-10
- 8125026819
- ISBN-13
- 9788125026815
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-10
- Publisher
- Orient Blackswan
- Author
- M. Zama
Description
The selections are from different writers of prose such as Stephen Hawking, Bernard Shaw, Jawaharlal Nehru and others. The notes have a short write-up about the author, a glossary, paragraph by paragraph explanations for each piece, and a short list of reference tasks and writing tasks.
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