English Literature

Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully readin...

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting cont...

Daddy Long Legs (H.B)

The year is 1565. Devastation reigns over the once-renowned Vijayanagara empire. Its powerful Army has buckled under the assault of four minor sult...

War and peace and anna karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honoured as the...

Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum opus, Ethics, in which he criti...

Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think...

The idea of a home is at the heart of pulayathara, which is not only the first Dalit novel on record (1963) but also one of the founding texts of t...

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No God was more represented in ancient Rome than the Phallic deity Pria...

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...