English Literature

Studies in Contemporary Poets contains fourteen essays on seven major twentieth-century poets, including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, P...

Sons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insights into...

Sir Philip Sidney regarded poetry as superior to History and Philosophy, but Victorian poet Robert Browning mixed poetry with History as well as Ph...

She Stoops to Conquer is based on the two incidents of being the target of practical jokes, and being out on blind dates, creating a complicated, c...

In this book Bradley approaches the major tragedies of Shakespeare through an extended study of the characters, who were presented as personalities...

The 37 essays included in this volume are gleaned from the rich repertoire of Tagore's original English writings which, unfortunately, did not rece...

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, ever since its publication in 1980, has been considered an ingenious piece of literary art and a trendsetter ...

Midnight’s Children, the second novel of Salman Rushdie, was published in 1981. In this epical novel he speaks of many Indians and many versions of...

A great dramatist, a literary critic, an eminent showman, an intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre personality of ...

Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gained popularity among children and adul...

Revisiting Ecocriticism: Traditional, Postcolonial and Spiritual Perspectives studies the representation of environmental issues in literature and ...

This book introduces post-graduate students and researchers to the basics and techniques of research methods in English literature and language. I...

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Relativity as a concept was not new to physics when Al...

Red Oleanders/Raktakarabī is one of the best plays of Tagore, the myriadminded and multifaceted genius; understandably ‘meanings’ have been sought ...

Life writings constitute an ever-evolving genre of self-expression. Women's autobiographies, in particular, have held a place in academic discourse...

R.K. Narayan and His Social Perspective deals with the caste-ridden Hindu society which Narayan presents in his novels. His Characters are fatalist...

A great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre personality of the 2...

Postmodernism in Indian English literature refers to the works of literature after 1980. If Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) marks modernism, Salman Ru...

Portrayal of Conflict and Insurgency in Literature from Kashmir studies the turbulent times of the 1990s insurgency and militancy in the Kashmir Va...

In Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel, unpublished until her death, satire and ridicule become milder and the tone is more grave and te...

Paradise Lost & Regained: A Modern Prose Translation is the first of its kind by an Indian scholar. It offers a combined picture of both parts ...

The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's most tightly woven ...

It is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth century. It...

On War is the English translation of the book Vom Kriege, originally written in German. Written at the time of Napoleon’s greatest campaigns, Pruss...

With this book an effort has been made to reassert that Anglo-Indian novel is an established genre today and Indian artists can be ranked with Brit...

With this book an effort has been made to reassert that Anglo-Indian novel is an established genre today and Indian artists can be ranked with Brit...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a ...

“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” In the words ...

Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, marks an important stage in her development as a writer. In this novel she finally departs from the fo...

Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social co...

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Gregor Sam...

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the First Folio of 162...

Mansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young lady, Mi...

Man and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based ...

America is a country of immense diversity, home to people from heterogeneous ethnic, religious and social backgrounds. Over the years, American soc...

The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is thought to ha...

Love’s Labour’s Lost, in five-acts, was written sometime between 1588 and 1597, and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page sugges...

Lord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a great noveli...

Louisa M. Alcoa, (29th November, 1832, Germantown, 6th March, 1888, Pennsylvania Boston, Massachusetts), Was an American novelist, short story writ...

Literary Criticism: An MCQ Based Study Guide offers an exhaustive coverage of Literary Criticism as a discipline. Beginning with the Classical Crit...

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and was believed to have been written be-tween 1605-1606, and was based on a legend of the ...

Jude the Obscure is a haunting love story and a raging indictment of Victorian society. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel is a rich ...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-fictio...

Joseph Andrews is Fielding's first novel, and although directed against Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a great success, it is far from being ...

Jane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion and thrill a...

In the modern or postmodern world, James Joyce is not only a stupendous writer but also a definer of the genre. His works are considered essential ...

Jacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for traditions...

Scott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a royal myth o...