English Literature

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Greg...

• Author(s): D. Murali Manohar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteraturePhonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical propert...

• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952...

• Author(s): Joseph A. Schumpeter • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe task of the economist is not to predict the future but to explain the present. Ten Great Economists, originally published in 191...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAnimal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, bei...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It c...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRudyard Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”;...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, ca...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It...

• Author(s): Ujjwala Kakarla | Leena Pundir Agarwal | Tanu Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureA lucid, comprehensive yet compact text focusing on core language skills in English, including vocab...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is...

• Author(s): Nicolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefu...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePLATO, born around 428 BC in Athens, was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens, the firs...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intell...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Merchant of Venice is a 16th century play written by Shakespeare between 1596-1598 in which a merchant in Venice must default on ...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” ...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVirginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered ...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English LiteratureIs Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of litera...

• Author(s): Translated by Sir Richard Burton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana, is widely considered to be the standard work on huma...

• Author(s): Marco Polo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMarco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book whic...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the ...

• Author(s): Jaya S. Nagendra • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThere has been much debate and discussion on the origin of language in human species. The exact time of origin of human language is sti...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where,...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” The Trial by Franz Kafka, first published posthumously ...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's most ...

• Author(s): M.P. Sinha | A.K. Awasthi | Shravan Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book Higher English Grammar and Composition is based on Modern English Grammar which has its base in descr...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of mod...

• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTreasure Island, a wonderfully crafted edition of Stevenson’s classic adventure story, is known for its great plot, immortal chara...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after he...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sad...

• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Relativity as a concept was not new to physi...

• Author(s): Raj Kumar Sharma | Bhushan Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureEnglish has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are g...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of na...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre person...

• Author(s): H.W. Fowler • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia & AtlasA Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a guide to the rules of good written British English including British E...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims ...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infus...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on t...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable ...

• Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThree Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to O...

• Author(s): Dante Alighieri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDante Alighieri's The Inferno is the first part of his epic Divine Comedy, which takes readers on a journey through Hell. Guided by the R...

• Author(s): E. Nesbit • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.” Edith Nesbit's The Railway Childre...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.”...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: PoetryAbout the Book This volume includes two long essays—the first explores the poetry of Negritude by analysing...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel, unpublished until her death, satire and ridicule become milder and the tone is more grave ...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBefore Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a cla...

• Author(s): Syed S. Haider | Raj Kumar Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteraturePhonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the gr...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd• Publisher Imprint: Peacock Books• Subject: English Literature• BISAC: fiction "I am oppressed by such strange thoughts, such gloomy sensations; questions st...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre | David Caute • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English LiteratureWhat is Literature? (Routledge Classics) [Paperback] Jean-Paul Sartre

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare early in his career between 1591-1595 about two young star-crossed lovers whose ...

• Author(s): Karl Marx Friedrick Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When...

• Author(s): Omar Khayyam • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title given by Edward FitzGerald to his translation of a selection of quatrains, originally written in Persi...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social...

• Author(s): Anne Frank • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Peacock Book • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: biography and autobiography,young adult nonfiction "Think of all the beauty still l...