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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The Portrait of a Lady</title>
    <subTitle>collected stories</subTitle>
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    <title>Best Indian short stories</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Singh, Khushwant.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Khushwant Singh</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1915-2014</namePart>
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  <genre authority="marc">biography</genre>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New Delhi</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Books Today</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001-</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>v. &lt;1   &gt; ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Anthology of short stories written by authors in their regional languages as well as those in English.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Machine generated contents note: 1. An Indian Dream -- M.J. Akbar -- 2. Why Does the Child Cry? -- Mulk Raj Anand -- 3. Ramblings on a Beach -- Kabir Bedi -- 4. Intermittent Fever -- Rajinder Singh Bedi -- 5. The Birdman -- Margaret Bhatty -- 6. The Leopard -- Ruskin Bond -- 7. The Tiger in the Tunnel -- Ruskin Bond -- 8. Those Thirty Minutes -- Krishan Chander -- 9. The Brinjal Cut-Out -- Krishan Chander -- 10. Flight 303 -- Suresh Chopra -- 11. Housewife -- Ismat Chugtai -- 12. A Home Near the Sea -- Kamala Das -- 13. The Crocodile's Lady -- Manoj Das -- 14. Descent from the Rooftop -- Anita Desai. -- 15. The Dark -- Shashi Deshpande -- 16. One More Dead Body -- Kartar Singh. Duggal -- 17. Midnight -- Wendy Fernandes. -- 18. A Flavour of Myrrh -- Coleen Gantzer -- 19. The Blue Hills Where the Sun Never Sets -- Hugh Gantzer -- 2 0. Mataji and the Hippies -- Balwant Gargi -- 21. Memories of an Indian Childhood -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 22. A Candle for St. Jude -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 23. My Aunt Gracie -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 24. Honour -- Qurratulain Hyder -- 25. A Tale of the Hijras -- Abdul Jabbar -- 26. The Birth of a Poem -- Amrita Pritam.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Khushwant Singh </note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Short stories, Indic</topic>
    <topic>Translations into English</topic>
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    <topic>Short stories, Indic (English)</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">891.4</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780143065876</identifier>
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