English Literature

A lucid, comprehensive yet compact text focusing on core language skills in English, including vocabulary building, lexis, syntax, and communicativ...

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the second quarto text w...

About the Book This volume includes two long essays—the first explores the poetry of Negritude by analysing the work of several Black poets of th...

The Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana, is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior. A portio...

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...

Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku, which chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit ...

Thinking of the usefulness and the great popularity of the first eight editions of the book, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and considering t...

The book Higher English Grammar and Composition is based on Modern English Grammar which has its base in descriptive linguistics and describes the ...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

Pedagogical linguistics deals with linguistics, phonology, phonetics, semantics, error-analysis, syllabus-design, preposition, spelling patterns, e...

Australian literature refers to the literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies...

The Tempest, a play in five acts, is believed to have been written in 1610-1611 and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wr...

Pfs History of English Lit Indian [Paperback] Alexander

A lucid, comprehensive yet compact text focusing on core language skills in English including vocabulary building, lexis, syntax, and communicative...

Positions features a careful selection from K. Satchidanandan’s essays on Indian literature, written over the past 25 years. The General Theme of t...

About the Book Sartre’s engagement with literature of his day extended well beyondthe works of his French contemporaries. This short volume testi...

About the Book In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptab...

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

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

Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English ...

This book presents the life stories and poems of six well-known saint-poets of north India-Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas-who...

Volpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605–1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable....

Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love, hilarious and heartbreaking, written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of...

The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behavior and customs of upper classes through witty dialogue and an intricate ...

(1) The Jungle Books: - Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch b...

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952, underline...

In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where, in sp...

Oliver Twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh Poor Law of 1834, and a grim picture of the sordid reality the London underworld of Dickens's times, ...

Henry IV, Part One is a history play, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing wi...

The growing trend of inter-cultural migration brought by global market forces has infused fresh interest among people across the world in learning ...

The book presents the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It aims to create in every student th...

NET is one of the most difficult examinations, more so because the syllabus is very vast and only a few lucky ones can cross the threshold, especia...

Candide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ as his men...

Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, being a dem...

The book is based on the uniform pattern of syllabus for M.A. in English for Indian Universities prescribed by the UGC. It is comprehensive and cov...

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘science of translatin...

What is Literature? (Routledge Classics) [Paperback] Jean-Paul Sartre

Phonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the growing relevance of communicat...

In an era of globalization, mastering English language has assumed great significance. Communication in English has become an essential skill for t...

For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. ...

Blake was a visionary like no other. To some, like William Wordsworth, the only explanation for the remarkable spiritual world Blake witnessed and ...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech...

The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh. Published in 1988, it received the prestigious Sahitya Acade...

The concept of 'diaspora' has garnered unprecedented fascination with the substantial surge in migration that has taken place across the globe in t...