Arts, Literature and Humanities

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer works of juven...

The Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 and first publi...

Rated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of Miss...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personal...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personal...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personal...

The book critically examines Shashi Deshpande’s award-winning novel, That Long Silence (1988), which is usually regarded as a feminist text of imme...

Sense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concerned wit...

Sailing Through My Eyes is a collection of enthralling tales that will keep you attached to the book. If you enjoy reading, you will undoubtedly fa...

Milton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, was composed during the period 1658 to 1664. The first version, published in 1667...

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle ...

Literary studies are supplemented by critiques that offer unique perspectives on diverse and complex concerns influencing every epoch. While litera...

Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the emotions ...

Set in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and narrated by the teenager David Balfour, Kidnapped is an adventure book that focuses very muc...

This book traces the origin and growth of Kamala Das as a poet through successive stages. Mrs. Das, who received no formal education, no pompous U...

Phonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the growing relevance of communicat...

This book presents a collection of essays and research papers on Indian English Poetry and Fiction. It has been classified in two sections. Section...

This is an attempt to focus on the prophetic vision of George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War perspective. In the course of discussion the author t...

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

Drama is a literary genre that provides spatial, aural, and visual experiences to both actors and viewers. Inflected by social, economic, and polit...

The present book is an in-depth critical study of the modern American classic, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer P...

English Language Teaching (ELT) refers to the teaching of English language to students who have different first language/s. It can occur within the...

As English has evolved from Latin, Greek, Roman, etc. over centuries, assimilating their usages, there are many asymmetries and paradoxes, which ar...

Throughout the history of human civilization, the discourse on gender has remained one of the most complex one, and social institutions have shaped...

Dr. Faustus is not only the masterpiece of Marlowe, it is one of the most influential of Elizabethan plays. In it, Marlowe has taken one of the bes...

Black Beauty translated from the original Equine, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, first published on 24th November 1877, is Anna ...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. Th...

A history of English literature is a chronological account of the books which have been written in the English language and their authors. Since li...

Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects o...

Also known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written around ...

English has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are generally considered a passpo...

In an era of globalization, mastering English language has assumed great significance. Communication in English has become an essential skill for t...

This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent ...

A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully histo...

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the natio...

REVIEWS FROM HARDBACK EDITION: 'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past....

Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a...

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses ho...

Concise and engaging, this text provides pre-service and practicing English language teachers with the knowledge they need to successfully teach th...

The World’s Greenest Buildings tackles an audacious task. Among the thousands of green buildings out there, which are the best, and how do we know?...

This outstanding practical guide to writing analytical essays on literature develops interpretive skills through focused exercises and modeled exam...

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobi...

The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer is an accessible and highly illustrated guide, which primes those involved in the design and researc...

Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that...

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a ...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, begin...

According to Bowker, there are over 150,000 books published in the U.S. every year. Less than 1 percent of the books published make the bestseller ...