English Literature

Basanti is a misfit in conservative, pre-independence rural Odisha. Not only does she read and write, all her choices—from marrying for love to dis...

This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called “one of the masters of European fiction” is, as long-time fans of Thomas Bernha...

Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has ...

The Gap-Toothed Banister, A Tale of Anglo-India is a close, compassionate look by Juliette Banerjee, an Anglo-Indian, at her community facing the c...

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so ma...

This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee breuer’s la div...

It’s the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali shah—the Nawab of Awadhi in Lucknow Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody...

The story of the Buddha is well-known, yet the original Bengali story of Nalak by Abanindranath Tagore remains unforgettable because of the sheer l...

The authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics Vyvyan Evans covers all aspects of the relationship between language and mind, as w...

Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in an infusion of viol...

As the Syrian war has raged over the past several years, the world has watched in horror. And that horror is particularly concentrated on the city ...

‘Blue jewellery’ is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Bl...

In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, a slap in the face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim,...

The thirteen stories of Michael krüger’s the god behind the window capture the poignancy and cynicism of late life through tales of misanthropic ol...

For nearly half a century, German artist Max Neumann has worked to create, hone and elaborate a visual vocabulary that is dark, compulsive and forc...

As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Daman is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother havi...

This book tells a story about the shaping of the historical, social, cultural, religious, and political Canvas of Burma (now Myanmar) by two powerf...

Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the butchering of unarmed innocents, is a historic event that haunts the human mind even after the lapse of a century. 1...

No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to ...

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921–1980), a remarkable film lyricist, was also an iconic literary poet. Surinder Deol paints a sensitive portrait that reveals a...

Evocative and crisp, Joginder Paul’s Urdu stories from Dharti ka Kaal are translated into English in land lust. His stories offer poignant glimpses...

The Oxford history of the novel in english is a volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose ...

Seventy-year-old Temsula Ao is a pioneer of northeastern Indian literature, who was recognized with India’s highest civilian honor in 2007 for her ...

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the ch...

Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history ha...

“Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil’s own job.”In this unusua...

A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters w...

The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the...

A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song. Or is...

John Kerrigan is one of the foremost critics of English literature. This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figure...

Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance presents two masterpieces of Bengali literature by Rabindranath Tagore’s nephews, Abanindranath Tagore...

Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, Laszlo Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winn...

"For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary cul...

In this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuses to renounce socialist beliefs in the newly u...

This magnificent, sprawling novel, a classic of Hindi literature, spans almost an entire century in the lives of several families and generations o...

It’s Berlin in the summer of 2003 sunshine for weeks on end, weather to fall in love. And that’s just what Christian Eich, the main character in Ul...

A rumour that ends in calamity; A girl who is demonised because of her ‘evil’ horoscope; A man who preys upon young girls; A train journey that for...

‘Deepa Agarwal’s writing stands up against women’s marginalization with rare artistry.’ — K. Satchidanandan‘Some stories begin at the beginning and...

Set against a rural backdrop of 20th century Bengal, the story of Bipradas (1935) revolves around the life and family of the central protagonist Bi...

Sadhana: The Realisation of Life *Sadhana* is a concise introduction to the spiritual heritage of ancient India by Rabindranath Tagore. With chapte...

Stray Birds, consisting of epigrams and short verses, has two sources. The first source is Kanika (literally, fragments) published in 1899. Most of...

A young woman who has been living abroad returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines a beautiful, impetuous painter wh...

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science,...

The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond with words, with the hist...

This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, ...

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker and bringing to an end a half century ...

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It c...

This lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory detail yet troubled by the ...