English Literature

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of t...

About the Book A towering figure in twentieth-century theater in India, Habib Tanvir was an actor, director and playwright, working in Hindi and U...

Charandas Chor

About the Book What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the R...

About the Book In Change , Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the pas...

About the Book For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status a...

About the Book Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in th...

About the Book From its birth in the dying days of the nineteenth century to its hi-tech proliferation today, cinema has been a mote in the eye of ...

Cat’s Night and Day is a perfect for a toddler, this little gem of a book is a poetic reflection on the life of a cat. K. G. Subramanyan (1924–2016...

In Catching Fish, the monsoons have flooded the streets, fish leap and swim about to the delight of a group of little boys, who try their best to c...

About the Book In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. In...

Recreates a period when religious conflict made people live in fear and suspicion, and portrays John Donne, the poet, whose needs and nature mirror...

About the Book Journeying from the green, rain-soaked Kerala into the amphitheatre of the Sun, our traveller-journalist finds that there is no bett...

Calcutta nights (Raater Kolkata) is the real-life story and memoir of the enigmatic ‘Meghnad Gupta’, pen name of famed Bengali fiction writer Hemen...

About the Book The definitive exploration of C.S. Lewis's philosophical thought, and its connection with his theological and literary work Arguably...

About the Book Bukhari (d.256/870) is famed throughout the Islamic world as the greatest practitioner in the field of hadith - textual reports of w...

About the Book The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who re...

About the Book British India and Victorian Literary Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative ...

About the Book The amazing inter-cultural correspondence (1919-1940) between two cultural icons of the twentieth century, Nobel laureates from the ...

About the Book One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight a lion lying on the floor as if it's the...

About the Book 'Blitz' is set in World War II, when Martin is evacuated to the country. However, he hates it there and manages to find his way back...

Describes the background of Bleak House, discusses its themes, and looks at its critical reception

About the Book In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Rood...

About the Book A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could--or would--change if we got another chance. In thi...

Elliot Rook QC is one of the greatest barristers of his generation. He is also a complete fraud.Elliot Rook is the epitome of a highly successful, ...

About the Book Best Practice is a four-level business English course designed for both pre-work and in-work students. It uses realistic, internatio...

About the Book This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams s contribution to moral philosophy, a fi...

About the Book Ben Jonson's Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. However, the ...

Before it Rains Again [Paperback] Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy and Rowena Hill

The first novel of one of the best writers today, koveru kazhuthaigal is located in the early 1970s when ritual status and payment in kind were giv...

They called her 'Barsa' in Arabic. Barsa—the one who does not veil her face, the one who does not bow her head, the one who asks questions. "Sabith...

About the Book Ajji, can I have some water?... Just a few drops will do, Ajji. With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cact...

Amal diverts all his focus and time on a new project, hoping to give new meaning to his life. Rishi delves deep into the beauty of Kaziranga, his f...

About the Book A moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish...

A baby visits Philadelphia and looks out on his family having breakfast, on people walking down the streets. The more he looks the more he sees. A ...

Translation technology is essential for translation students, practising translators, and those working as part of the language services industry, ...

About the Book Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Pall...

About the Book Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi reg...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Audiovisual Translation (AVT) in India. It examines the AVT of TV advertisements, analyses trend...

About the Book When Anna discovers a long letter that her mother Marie wrote, Marie has been dead for some time, and Anna is shocked to learn that ...

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalin...

Providing a detailed history of the play in production, both on stage and on screen, this volume's introduction demonstrates how changing conceptio...

About the Book Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was one of the greatest writers in modern Bengali literature, best known for his autobiographical novel...

About the Book "Gone, finito , The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than d...

John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs t...

About the Book Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of im...

About the Book This is a translation of Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug (1953), one of the most significant plays of modern India. Written immediatel...