English Literature

The Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath whose l...

Northanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its freshest ...

R.K. Narayan’s career as a novelist and short story writer spans almost eight decades from Swami and Friends (1935) to Grandmother’s Tale (1992) un...

Myth-history combine marks the ruling motive of the Contemporary Indian Novel in English. In Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason, reason makes a fu...

William Shakespeare (B 26 April 1564? 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English lang...

Dr. Samuel Johnson's magnum opus, Lives of the English Poets, is such a work as posterity will not willingly let die. Though written more than 200 ...

Dr. Samuel Johnson's magnum opus, Lives of the English Poets, is such a work as posterity will not willingly let die. Though written more than 200 ...

Indian English literature in its very tone and tenor presents a unique blend of tradition and experiment in both its matter and manner. The present...

Indian English literature has come to have a throbbing, distinctive presence of its own, having graduated from the imitative, realistic and psychol...

Indian Literature in English incorporates Indian themes and experience in a framework that is a blend of Indian and Western aesthetics. This often ...

Indian English literature in its very tone and tenor presents a unique blend of tradition and experiment in both its matter and manner. The present...

In recent years, the Indian English Literature has made conspicuous progress in all its forms, mainly in fiction and poetry. The present anthology ...

Twentieth Century English Literature was shaped to a great extent by the genius of T.S. Eliot. His towering personality illuminates the major genre...

This book studies Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the light of his aesthetic principles and major themes. It scrutinizes its symbolistic dimensio...

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...

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...

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...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, So...

A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, Sout...

Emily Brontë appeared first in the literary world as a poet, but she is remembered even today for the single powerful novel, Wuthering Heights, tha...

Comparative Literature contains fifteen scholarly papers on theory and practice of this body of literature in our time. It makes an attempt to anal...

Commonwealth literature continues to retain a separate identity in the twenty-first century, even though some of its creators do not favour the ter...

Applied Linguistics explores in depth some of the most vital areas in stylistics and language teaching: Anthropomorphism in the Language of Poetry ...

The book contains well researched articles by scholars from Indian Universities. The articles offer a comprehensive view of what American fiction h...

The Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour and de...

Edith Wharton s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the grandeur ...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

“... the most exhaustive and important in its field...” Thus, the judgment of an outstanding 19th century literary figure (see below on Ward’s mast...

The book presents a bird’s eye view of the Indian fiction in English in terms of realism and social realism. The text gives at the most, a pen pict...