English Literature

The eternal conflict in the age-old ‘man-woman’ relationship, which typically arises when any one of the two partners seeks both solace and passion...

Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. ...

Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrica...

Explains why Troilus and Cressida is such a controversial play, offers a fresh interpretation of the work, and discusses Shakespeare's themes and t...

About the Book A critically acclaimed foundational text, Translation in Systems offers a comprehensive guide to the descriptive and systemic approa...

About the Book Translation, Second Edition introduces the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, and ...

About the Book Insect transgenesis promises improvements in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and public health. Many important insects can now be routi...

This broad and comprehensive book also speaks volumes to the value of the humanities, and the significance of South Asian contexts. It will be of p...

About the Book To your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apartment block, the horrors of a n...

About the Book In 1968-69 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides, wrote H l ne Cixous, esteeme...

About the Book This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent develo...

Buddhadeva Bose, the noted Bengali littérateur, once observed that the greatest treasure of Bangla literature is its children’s and young adults’ l...

For Barbara, an Australian artist and writer, br>Rajasthan proves to be a welcome breeze. To her it becomes a land of wonders, of colours, of wa...

About the Book Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape ? , Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light ...

About the Book Early in Thoreau's career, he became obsessed with the problem of getting to be at home in the world. This ambitious book relates th...

About the Book Thomas Hardy's "Poetical Matter" notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy h...

The Shoemaker's Holiday [Paperback] The Shoemaker's Holiday

About the Book Bhaskar Chakrabarti’s poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one ...

About the Book Alice Attie's inaugural volume of poetry is an invitation to collectively "bend into silence as we bend into words." In These Figure...

About the Book This book offers a comprehensive account of the censorship of literature in India since Independence and the recent trends in liter...

About the Book Originally published in 1965, The Writer and the People was one of the key books in the revitalization and invigoration of the young...

About the Book The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William ...

About the Book The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William ...

About the Book The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William ...

About the Book The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of alm...

Aaydan is a generic term used for all things made from bamboo; Translated for the first time in to English as The Weave of my life, Urmilas memoirs...

About the Book Johnny is from New Jersey, and Kari is from Oslo. They meet in New York in the late 1950s and soon fall in love, get married, and mo...

About the Book The book centers on the character of Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the p...

About the Book Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a politi...

The vengeance is the unhappy tale of prince vidudabha, the son of Maharaja pasenadi of ko SA LA and Maharani vasabhakhatiya of kapilavatthu. Things...

About the Book Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, The Two Gentlemen of Verona has been specially prepared to help al...

Describes the background of The Turn of the Screw, discusses its themes, and looks at the story's critical reception

If trees could talk, they’d have so much to tell: The story of two broken hearts, that stolen first kiss, those last words of a mother to her son, ...

About the Book -A socio-political thriller set in Kashmir from 1990 to 2013 -A coming-of-age novel that depicts the lives of three children and the...

One would think that as a man grows older, he gets wiser, but not old Raaheeji. Ignoring his wife’s warnings, old Raaheeji wanders deep into the wo...

About the Book This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book t...

About the Book In The Tenth Muse, Albert Gelpi asks the hard questions about how poetry can take on for itself the problems of shaping American ide...

About the Book This volume presents a comprehensive investigation of one of the most unusual archaic Greek temples. The Temple of Athena at Assos, ...

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden 3 edition righ...

About the Book These books represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world's pidgins, creoles and mixed languages...

Sudhakar Rao spends hours reading under a suragi tree in his father’s home in a small village in Karnataka. As he grows, he moves away from this id...

About the Book Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structu...

About the Book In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education p...

The story of the timepiece: a collection of short stories, written by award-winning writer S.K. Pottekkat, aptly showcases the authors penchant for...

About the Book Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a retired Ottoman notable, retires to its ...

The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the Spanish tra...