English Literature

A true hallmark of American fiction, All the King's Men tells the timeless story of the rise and fall of a southern politician, Willie Stark, and t...

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is an Evergreen children’s classic that takes the reader into a fantastic world of unforgettable ...

About the Book On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to clou...

About the Book In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction ...

African Poetry and Drama

About the Book Although Herman Melville's masterworks Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly examination, th...

This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study...

About the Book Stella vinitchi radulescu’s poetry dwells in spaces of paradox, seeking out the words, metaphors and images that capture both the ...

About the Book Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic ...

About the Book The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist--whose incomparable skill and perso...

A Bonsai Tree is not a memoir; it is an autobiography. Memoir is a selective slice of life focused to advantage; autobiography is the whole messy l...

A Christmas Carol (H.B)

Heralded as one of France's greatest poets, Yves Bonnefoy has been dazzling readers since the publication of his first book in 1953. He remains inf...

The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the las...

Phobic And The Erotic: The Politics Of Sexualities In Contemporary India

Widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation, Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. Firs...

Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry & Painting (H.B)

I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have likewise and I’ve liked too many men. Fra...

The authors skillfully blend a thorough grasp of the first half century with sensitive use of psycho-biographical technique.

Introducing a refreshing young French voice to English readers, this slim novel is both a riveting love story and an examination of humanity’s assa...

Like Barbarians in India (H.B)

Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures he...

The myth of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) focuses on his early years: how the great enfant terrible tore through the nineteenthcentury literary scene ...

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of Humanism in an intellectual l...

The ten stories in this collection cover different spaces and unravel many layers that Imayam so masterfully and effortlessly weaves into his narra...

A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.

Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the Englis...

A novel about disability, family secrets, and Norway’s eugenic past. The White Bathing Hut is a genetic detective story. The narrator uses a whee...

Reinhard Jirgl’s strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to lang...

Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on variou...

An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a...

“Baudelaire is indeed the greatest Exemplar in modern poetry in any language,” said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through hi...

In Bab al-saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine, sits a house of ill repute. In it lives nuzha, a young woman ostracized from and shamed by her comm...

The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Indian and alien va...

Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully readin...

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting cont...

Daddy Long Legs (H.B)

Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in an infusion of viol...

As the Syrian war has raged over the past several years, the world has watched in horror. And that horror is particularly concentrated on the city ...

‘Blue jewellery’ is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Bl...

In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, a slap in the face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim,...

The thirteen stories of Michael krüger’s the god behind the window capture the poignancy and cynicism of late life through tales of misanthropic ol...

For nearly half a century, German artist Max Neumann has worked to create, hone and elaborate a visual vocabulary that is dark, compulsive and forc...

As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Daman is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother havi...

This book tells a story about the shaping of the historical, social, cultural, religious, and political Canvas of Burma (now Myanmar) by two powerf...

Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the butchering of unarmed innocents, is a historic event that haunts the human mind even after the lapse of a century. 1...

No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to ...