Misery by Stephen King

Misery by Stephen KingMisery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs. The good news was

nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven PinkerMeritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth

‘Ivan the Fool’ (1885)

How does one think about one's own life and career in this changing decade

But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge

From someone who once released his student film though it was incomplete because he ran out of money and film stock

but men that honour titles

Francis King provides a complete theoretical and practical guide to the Tantric path of liberation

What if it's a product of a healthy system

translated into more than ten languages

Astavakragita (The Song of the Self Supreme) contains the Sanskrit text of Astavakragita (both in Nagari and Roman script)

In a world of change

Rather than abandoning meritocracy