{"title":"Paris Singh","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"reflections-book-paris-singh-9781736841006","title":"Reflections","description":"Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah's Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are. As the book's foreword states, 'Do you imagine that fables exist only to amuse or to instruct, and are based upon fiction? The best ones are delineations of what happens in real life, in the community and in the individual's mental processes'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51120503357713,"sku":"NIN9781736841006","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51157373387025,"sku":"NGR9781736841006","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52478183440657,"sku":"NLS9781736841006","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1736841009.jpg?v=1750864903"},{"product_id":"colonial-sketches-and-stories-book-paris-singh-9798985533996","title":"Colonial Sketches and Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of short anecdotal sketches and stories attempts to depict impressionistically the rural colonial life in an era in British Guiana long gone. The narrative voice is that of young Ralph. The stories, though largely fictionalized, are loosely based on true incidents. In trying to evoke the color, spectacle, and mores of the period, Ralph looks at the fun and games of childhood in a sugar plantation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis Singh was born in Rose Hall Estate, Canje, British Guiana, in 1943. After Primary education at St. Patrick's in Rose Hall, he moved with his family to Hampshire and attended Corentyne High where he graduated in 1962. He spent another eleven years there to teach English, Latin and French before leaving for studies in Canada. He read Honors English at McMaster University and graduated in 1977. He continued with graduate studies in Renaissance Literature there and later at the Universities of Waterloo and Ottawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his studies, Paris emigrated to New York where he taught English at La Guardia College and English and Latin at Bryant High, Astoria. After forty-two years in the profession, he retired in 2009. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53635722445073,"sku":"NLS9798985533996","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798985533996.jpg?v=1780997813"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-paris-singh.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}