English Literature

• Author(s): D. Murali Manohar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteraturePhonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical propert...

• Author(s): Ernest Hemingway • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Greg...

• Author(s): Jonathan Swift • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureGulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It c...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRudyard Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”;...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAnimal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, bei...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, ca...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intell...

• Author(s): Jaya S. Nagendra • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThere has been much debate and discussion on the origin of language in human species. The exact time of origin of human language is sti...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is...

• Author(s): Marco Polo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMarco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book whic...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Merchant of Venice is a 16th century play written by Shakespeare between 1596-1598 in which a merchant in Venice must default on ...

• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTreasure Island, a wonderfully crafted edition of Stevenson’s classic adventure story, is known for its great plot, immortal chara...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVirginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered ...

• Author(s): Nicolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefu...

• Author(s): M.P. Sinha | A.K. Awasthi | Shravan Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book Higher English Grammar and Composition is based on Modern English Grammar which has its base in descr...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of mod...

• Author(s): Raj Kumar Sharma | Bhushan Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureEnglish has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are g...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where,...

• Author(s): Plato • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePLATO, born around 428 BC in Athens, was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens, the firs...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” ...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's most ...

• Author(s): Charles Darwin • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the ...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre person...

• Author(s): H.W. Fowler • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia & AtlasA Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a guide to the rules of good written British English including British E...

• Author(s): Translated by Sir Richard Burton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana, is widely considered to be the standard work on huma...

• Author(s): Syed S. Haider | Raj Kumar Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteraturePhonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the gr...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims ...

• Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThree Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to O...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable ...

• Author(s): Krishna Bose • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: English Literatureनेता जी सुभाष चंद बोस और उनकी पत्नी एमिली शेंकल के संबंधों के बारे में बहुत कम लोग जानते हैं। ये संबंध नेता जी के जीवन के सबसे कम ज्ञ...

• Author(s): Otto Jespersen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book combines general rules of English language for common users as well as complex issues for expert philologists. It contains the c...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of na...

• Author(s): P.B. Shelley • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureA Defence of Poetry and Other Essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley'...

• Author(s): Omar Khayyam • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title given by Edward FitzGerald to his translation of a selection of quatrains, originally written in Persi...

• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Relativity as a concept was not new to physi...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on t...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBefore Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a cla...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1...

• Author(s): Saki (H.H. Munro) • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe book contains the best short stories written by Hector Hugh Munro under his pen name, Saki. "Reginald" was written after he had giv...

• Author(s): Vandhana Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureSome of the modern critics of myth have stressed that the myth is essentially related to creation. The corpus of myths and rituals with ...

• Author(s): Roland Barthes • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: EssaysA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all av...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after he...

• Author(s): Lewis Carroll • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dr...

• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.” A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the...

• Author(s): Tomichan Matheikal • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Book presents well-researched critical studies on selected poems from the various historical epochs of English literature. Each M...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThis nightmarish tale by H.G. Wells contains all the suspense and adventure of science fiction at its best. It begins with a quiet country inn...

• Author(s): R. L. Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMr. Utterson goes for a walk with his friend and relative Mr. Enfield, who tells a sad story in which a brute of a man knocks down a litt...

• Author(s): Karl Marx Friedrick Engels • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When...

• Author(s): Compiled by M.S. Kushwaha | K. Naseem• Publisher: Atlantic• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic• Subject: English Literature   <p><i>Indian Doctoral Dissertations in English Studies: A Reference Guide</i> brings together, fo...

• Author(s): Daniel Defoe • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteraturePublished in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gained popularity among children a...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel, unpublished until her death, satire and ridicule become milder and the tone is more grave ...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWhen Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infus...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare early in his career between 1591-1595 about two young star-crossed lovers whose ...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureScrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas, calling it "humbug". On a Christmas eve, he refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rude...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOliver Twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh Poor Law of 1834, and a grim picture of the sordid reality the London underworld of Dickens...