English Literature

The Postcolonial Mind: Urdu Culture, Islam and Modernity in Muhammad Hasan Askari

Ruskin Bond: The Mussoorie Years... is a delightful tribute to a friend of forty years. Ganesh Saili captures memorable moments in the life of Rusk...

Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out. But few know that a month after the au...

An active career spanning seven decades is unusual. And to describe Ashoka Gupta (1912-2008) simply as a ‘social worker’ is not enough. Till the la...

Set in the turbulent 1920s against the backdrop of India's Freedom Movement, this novel is set in Munganda village-a microcosm of an India through ...

A tribute to one of India’s greatest personalities on the occasion of his hundred and fiftieth birth anniversary. The book highlights those inciden...

Mutual trust is an essential element of a globalized economy, and a market economy without trust leads only to further disaster. If we want to ensu...

This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions i...

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, reve...

The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and genera...

This book throws up questions largely considered taboo in traditional societies and compels the reader to address them honestly. It telescopes the ...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Mahesh Dattani is the foremost Indian English dramatist today. The pioneering study makes an attempt at evaluating the major plays of Dattani in te...

Drawing on philosophical and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation, Richard Kuhns explores modern transformations of an ancient poetic genre, tr...

These fifteen stories reflect contemporary cultural changes in Indian families. They stand witness to social, political and economic changes in glo...

Hutom Pyanchar Naksha (literally, 'Sketches by Hutom the Owl'), a set of satirical portraits in Bengali about ordinary life in the nineteenth centu...

The concluding novel in a trilogy that has become a landmark of Palestinian fiction. An Old Carriage with Curtains is the third and final book in ...

A dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Grünbein’s work over the past two decades. Born in Dresden ...

A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives. Born in 1963, Szilárd Borbély emerged as one of the most import...

A rare narrative of gay love in the Arab world that travels into the lives of a group of spirited youth during the Syrian Revolution. Youssef’s m...

A personal look into the mind of one of Europe’s first and foremost women of letters. At times poetic but not a poem, prosaic but not an essay, a...

The playwright and poet, Michael Madhusudan Datta is easily one of the most important and controversial literary figures of nineteenth-century Sout...

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) represented an ideational universe in which universal humanism was one of the most significant pillars. In conventi...

Dukhi Dadiba is a tragic love story written in an easy, colourful style. It centres around the missing heir of a very wealthy and socially prominen...

A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems. In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrik...

A metafictional novel about two intertwined stories of love that seek to perpetuate themselves in history. The Worst Thing of All Is the Light tel...

Written in the first four months of the war in Ukraine, fuelled by anger towards mindless violence, Nemec’s stories tackle the present moment and c...

A lyrical novel with a poetic narrative about an overlooked individual in Arab African history. For two days the rabbi rides on a donkey to find t...

A deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France. Dying of Thinking is the ninth v...

A glimpse into the world of young people, modern nomads, roving in search of a new and promising life. The Moon in Foil traces the stories of Petr...

This book is an offering―of prose, poetry, musical lyrics, and visual art―by the women of Meghalaya in Northeast India. One of the smallest states ...

A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden...

A beautifully produced volume featuring the work of a major German artist. While a face may be considered a head, a head does not necessarily carr...

This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. I...

The first complete publication of Robert Walser’s poems translated into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acc...

BLENDING LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGY BY M. NIRMALA, K. PADMAVATHI

Laxmibai Abhyankar’s stories are full of hope for the future, also of regret and tragedy. The stories in this collection are set amidst the evolvin...

This handbook a comprehensive overview of research in Public Service, or Community Interpreting. It offers reflections and suggestions for improvin...

This seminal volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign language t...

This scholarly research handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldw...

This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions ab...

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneous circums...

Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku, which chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit ...

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It e...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (1927–2001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as ‘rural’ (grameen) fiction in Marathi in ...