Opium

By Ashapurna Devi

Following the success of the hot-selling novels The Pleasure is all Mine andThe Surprise Birthday Gift by Shanaya Taneja, we bring to you a collection of 4 of her most sinfully seductive stories wrapped up together in one delightfully hot bundle.

Lust or Love is a collection containing 4 Romantic stories by the bestselling author Shanaya Taneja:

The Pleasure is all Mine
The Surprise Birthday Gift
Call Before you Come
Wet at 40,000 Feet

• Language: English
• Publisher: Srishti Publishers
• Release date: Sep 10, 2017

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Opium

Ashapurna Devi

Translated by

Sanjukta Dasgupta

Srishti

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This eBook edition has been extracted from Her Stories:20th Century Bengali Women Writers

First published by

Srishti Publishers & Distributors in 2002

First published digitally by

Srishti Publishers & Distributors in 2017

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Ashapurna Devi

Born in colonial India in who was totally self-taught went on to write one hundred and eighty nine novels and nearly a thousand short stories. She also wrote around four hundred stories for children. Ashapurna never went to school but learned to read and write by watching her elder brother practice reading and writing while doing his school exercises. But unlike many Bengali girls in those days Ashapurna had the privilege of having for her mother a literate lady whose pastime was reading. Ashapurna too became a compulsive reader. But mere reading did not satisfy her. She began her literacy career