Book 01 - The Ambassadors by Henry James (Chs 01-03)
Book 01 (Chs 01-03). Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Nicholas Clifford. Playlist for The Ambassadors by Henry James: www.youtube.com

Pyaasa
Super Hit old classic movie Pyaasa (1957) Synopsis : Vijay (Guru Dutt) is an unsuccessful poet whose works are not taken seriously by publishers or his brothers who sell his poems as waste paper. Unable to bear their taunting at him being a good for nothing, he stays away from home often out on the streets. He encounters a prostitute on the streets Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman), enamoured of his poetry and who falls in love with him. He also encounters his ex-girlfriend Meena (Mala Sinha) from college and finds out that she is married to a big publisher Mr. Ghosh (Rehman) for financial security who hires him as a servant to find out more about him and Meena. A dead beggar to whom Vijay gave his coat and whom he tries to save unsuccessfully from the path of a running train is mistaken for Vijay. Gulabo goes to Ghosh and gets his poems published. Ghosh does so feeling he can exploit the poems and make a killing. But Vijay is alive and in hospital after the train mishap. Ghosh and Shyam, Vijay s close friend, refuse to recognise him and he is committed to a mental asylum since he insisits he is Vijay and is thought to be mad. Vijay s brothers too are bought off by Ghosh not to recognize him and a memorial is held for the dead poet. Vijay with the help of his friend Abdul Sattar (Johhnny Walker) escapes from the mental asylum and reaches the memorial service where he denounces this corrupt and materialistic world. Seeing that Vijay is alive his friend and brothers take side with a <b>...</b>