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BUILD YOUR ENGLISH SKILLS WITH RUSKIN BOND

By Ruskin Bond

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About the book

Join us on this exciting literary journey. It will take you forward in more ways than one. – RUSKIN BOND

For anyone who aspires to build their English skills, there could be no better teacher than Ruskin Bond, everyone’s favourite wordsmith!

This book contains a careful selection of excerpts from some of Ruskin Bond’s favourite classics ranging from Christina Rossetti’s ‘Who Has Seen the Wind’ and Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘From a Railway Carriage’ to Jonathan Swift’s ‘Lilliput and Its Laws’ and Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Mystery of the Test Papers’, among many other equally powerful examples of fine English writing.

Each text is accompanied by useful exercises and skill-building activities that will help build and test the reader’s English skills.

The perfect book to get better at English in the company of the master of literary writing, Ruskin Bond!

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond is one of India’s most well-known writers. Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, he grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun and Shimla. In the course of a writing career spanning over seventy years, he has published over a hundred books, including short-story collections, poetry, novels, essays, memoirs and journals, edited anthologies and books for children. The Room on the Roof was his first novel, written when he was seventeen. It received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. He has also received many other awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Many of his stories and novellas including The Blue Umbrella, A Flight of Pigeons and Susanna’s Seven Husbands have been adapted into films.
Ruskin lives in Landour, Mussoorie. His other books with HarperCollins include These are a Few of My Favourite Things, Koki’s Song, How to Be a Writer, The Enchanted Cottage and How to Live Your Life.

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