English Literature

Women in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a se...

To make Shakespeare comprehensible to the eager student is a challenging task and this is what the present work sets out to do. It provides the rea...

This is the first ever comprehensive annotated bibliography on Indian English fiction. It is intended to be a primary source book to be used by the...

William Shakespeare is considered the best poet and dramatist of all ages. His tragic drama Othello has been popular since its first performance at...

Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as the greatest English dramatist and poet. Among the 37 plays that he wrote are included tragedies, comedies an...

King Lear is one of the most difficult plays of Shakespeare. It takes ordinary jealousies, demand for love, sibling rivalries, desire for money and...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work ...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work ...

As You Like It has been acclaimed as the best of the Golden Comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance and pastoralism to ...

Antony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1623. The plot ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is acclaimed as the best of the early comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance, supernatural f...

Shakespeare is the brightest star in the galaxy of English writers. He excelled in writing all types of drama—Tragedy, Comedy, Romantic and Histori...

Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential play, Macbeth encapsulates the greatest Christian tragedy of all: the Fall of Man. ...

The present book aims at a detailed study of Macbeth, dealing with the theme of ambition and fear. It organizes its material in terms of characteri...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

During the post-war years the experimental tendency in British novel continued, but the critics lamented that the mid-twentieth century British lit...

Golding often presents isolated individuals or small groups in extreme situations dealing with man in his basic condition stripped of trappings, cr...

The present work is a critical study of William Congreve’s Play The Way of the World. It is a comedy of manners and the reader will find eminently ...

William Blake (1757—1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. He was born in Soho, London to James and Catherine Blake. He left his school...

The book contains principles, techniques, exercises and practical ideas to make you win in life: to improve your market worth, better your finances...

The book is a comprehensive and critical analysis of selected novels of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor and attempts to examine the “...

W.H. Auden’s Poetry: The Quest for Love is a study of the major twentieth-century British-American poet W.H. Auden’s mutating quest for love in the...

W.B. Yeats: Poetry and Plays studies the poetry and plays of William Butler Yeats, perhaps the greatest poet in the English language of his period,...

Although politics is supposed to be something dirty that will contaminate the otherwise pure stream of poetry, all great poets right from the days ...

This scholarly book on Virginia Woolf’s experimental novels is an outstanding contribution to Virginia Woolf scholarship. The renewed academic vent...

The historic grand narrative of the legendary king Vikramaditya is interspersed with myths and has been scrutinised suspiciously for historical acc...

Vikram Seth is one of the most well-known and successful names in the Indian English writing today. Internationally renowned for his artistic skill...

Vijay Tendulkar: A Pioneer Playwright speaks volumes of this veteran Indian playwright of international repute. It delves deep into the problematic...

This study breaks fresh ground in exploring V.S. Naipaul’s three books about his travels in India, treating these as a series whose meanings emerge...

This book breaks fresh ground in exploring V.S. Naipaul’s Indian Trilogy. Craving to know more and more about India—the land of his ancestors—Naipa...

A constant concern of Naipaul’s novels and travel writing is the negotiation of where the individual is situated. Many of his fictional figures rem...

V.S. Naipaul has claimed that all his work is really one and he has been writing one big book all these years; also, considering the world he has s...

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, the first Nobel Laureate in Literature of the twenty-first century, has occupied a coveted place on the zenith o...

V.S. Naipaul has been critical of the postcolonial societies—their history, politics and culture. He has combined fiction, history, autobiography a...

No treatment of modern criticism is possible without discussing I.A. Richards, since in the most literal sense his influence combined with that of ...

Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a scathing critici...

During the year 1866, some ships spot a mysterious sea monster. The US government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the ...

The literary canon of twentieth-century illustrates an aesthetic shift marked by a tendency of literature to turn more experimental, more anxious, ...

Twentieth century American Literature is characterized by important movements in drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism that took shape in the years...

Although rural life has been dealt with in a number of Indian English novels, tribals as such have rarely been depicted in them. This fact testifie...

Gender Studies is an emerging area of deliberation around the world. It has been at the center of thought since always and all academic disciplines...

The current revival of interest in Indo-Anglian literature can be attributed to the changed atmosphere of the post-Independence era. Indo-Anglian w...