English Literature

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....

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 ...

“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, ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Mulk Raj Anand is widely recognised as one of the most prominent English novelists in India. Translated into many languages both within India and a...

The Writer, the Reader and the State: Literary Censorship in India offers a comprehensive account of the censorship of literature in India since In...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 8 presents a compelling collection of Tagore's open letters, speeches and tributes, addressing...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 7 is a thought-provoking collection of Tagore's lectures and addresses, offering profound insi...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 6 presents a compelling collection of essays, lectures and addresses that delve into Tagore’s ...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 5 presents a profound exploration of the human experience through the lens of one of India’s m...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 4 is a compelling collection of essays that highlights Tagore’s profound insights on spiritual...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 1 is a compelling collection of the Nobel laureate’s most celebrated works, showcasing his mas...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 2 presents an exquisite continuation of Tagore’s poetic journey, offering a rich tapestry of c...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 3 offers a captivating collection of Tagore’s plays and stories, showcasing his dramatic flair...

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...

Lucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her formidable elder sister Katherine is wedded off. The wily Petruchio plans a courtship with tou...

"Jagdish's autobiography tells a fascinating life story in a few hundred pages of what it is to be, in one person, a scholar, change agent, advisor...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on the true histor...

“Out of evil cometh good.” One of the important consequences of colonialism in India is the birth of Indian English literature. The process through...

History of English Literature deals with all aspects of development of English Literature in a comprehensive manner. The book is based on the sylla...

Dracula, published in 1897, is the most famous of all tales of vampirism. Presented in diaries, letters and news items, this story of the bloodsuck...

Book Summary of A History The Book Has A Vide Coverage And Critically Surveys The World Famous Authors In English Literature Spread Over A Long Per...

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a ...

A classic masterpiece of gothic horror fiction Dracula, Bram Stoker’s chilling tale of disturbing events, dark desires and the harrowing world of ...

A critical examination of Tennyson's major poems, with brief analyses of his literary reputation and achievements

About the Book In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and to an Orwellian abuse of language that stri...

About the Book Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights....

About the Book In this strikingly original memoir, Marie Bronsard reweaves the history of her family--and the legend of her grandmother--leaving no...

About the Book Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting...

About the Book This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan populat...

About the Book The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he ha...

About the Book Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continenta...

About the Book It’s the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child ...

About the Book Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire—a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has d...

About the Book Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he...

Man's so abrupt a transformation into a self-seeking individualist and the rejection of the Ptolemaic world picture of 1452 and all the Christian d...

Highlighting the voices that have shaped the trajectory of Indian English poetry, Remapping the Canon: A Journey Across Indian Poetry in English pr...