English Literature

About the Book David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and...

About the Book Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly po...

A critical examination of Tennyson's major poems, with brief analyses of his literary reputation and achievements

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, howe...

About the Book In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and to an Orwellian abuse of language that stri...

About the Book In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who l...

About the Book Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights....

About the Book In this strikingly original memoir, Marie Bronsard reweaves the history of her family--and the legend of her grandmother--leaving no...

About the Book Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting...

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and sch...

About the Book This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan populat...

About the Book The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he ha...

About the Book Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continenta...

About the Book It’s the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child ...

Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Sh...

Recorded during Borges’ final years, this third volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Ar...

About the Book Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire—a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has d...

About the Book In June 1939, Annemarie schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The fi...

About the Book Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he...

Man's so abrupt a transformation into a self-seeking individualist and the rejection of the Ptolemaic world picture of 1452 and all the Christian d...

Highlighting the voices that have shaped the trajectory of Indian English poetry, Remapping the Canon: A Journey Across Indian Poetry in English pr...

The Wind In The Willows (H.B)

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

About the Book This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein , or A Wilder...

About the Book Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we ...

About the Book Paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s Germany. First Light cov...

About the Book John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership througho...