English Literature

Ecofeminism is an established feature of Indian literary thought, rooted in the Indian ethos. Women have been close associates of the natural scene...

The present book attempts to bring before the reading public an in-depth analysis of the literary scenario of 19th century America, focusing mainly...

Lewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dream lite...

When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their f...

Although ostensibly only a "primer" meant for beginners, the book offers an excellent practical guideline for the students in understanding and app...

James Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a key wo...

Literary theory is a systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. Literary theory and literary critici...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy in five acts by Shakespeare, written about 1595-96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author's ma...

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.” A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the heartwarming stor...

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘science of translatin...

There is no dearth of books on literary and/or related terms. However, any new book of some worth is invariably expected to add something new to th...

Hemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a book.' In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's most celebrat...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a guide to the rules of good written British English including British English usage, pronunciation, and wr...

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley's argume...

The construction of identity in the Indian subcontinent is complex as this region has witnessed the coexistence and conflicts of various racial, et...

Anil Gharai is arguably one of the most significant authors of Bangla Dalit literature. His works deal with the stark everyday realities of people ...

Wuthering Heights is a unique novel in a unique way. The present commentary shows how Emily Bronte’s novel defies comparison and is yet deeply root...

Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempe...

This edition contains all the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare with a critical appreciation of each for the benefit of all the University and College stu...

Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel, first published in 1895. Taking place during the American Civil War, it is the story about...

A classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the account o...

The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social oblig...

The Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without complex literary ...

The God of Small Things, the international best seller by Arundhati Roy, has raised numerous questions. Is it a piece of anti-Communist propaganda?...

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer works of juven...

The Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 and first publi...

Rated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of Miss...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personal...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personal...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personal...

The book critically examines Shashi Deshpande’s award-winning novel, That Long Silence (1988), which is usually regarded as a feminist text of imme...

Sense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concerned wit...

Milton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, was composed during the period 1658 to 1664. The first version, published in 1667...

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle ...

Literary studies are supplemented by critiques that offer unique perspectives on diverse and complex concerns influencing every epoch. While litera...

Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the emotions ...

Set in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and narrated by the teenager David Balfour, Kidnapped is an adventure book that focuses very muc...

This book traces the origin and growth of Kamala Das as a poet through successive stages. Mrs. Das, who received no formal education, no pompous U...

Phonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the growing relevance of communicat...

This book presents a collection of essays and research papers on Indian English Poetry and Fiction. It has been classified in two sections. Section...

This is an attempt to focus on the prophetic vision of George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War perspective. In the course of discussion the author t...

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

Drama is a literary genre that provides spatial, aural, and visual experiences to both actors and viewers. Inflected by social, economic, and polit...

The present book is an in-depth critical study of the modern American classic, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer P...

English Language Teaching (ELT) refers to the teaching of English language to students who have different first language/s. It can occur within the...

As English has evolved from Latin, Greek, Roman, etc. over centuries, assimilating their usages, there are many asymmetries and paradoxes, which ar...

Throughout the history of human civilization, the discourse on gender has remained one of the most complex one, and social institutions have shaped...

Dr. Faustus is not only the masterpiece of Marlowe, it is one of the most influential of Elizabethan plays. In it, Marlowe has taken one of the bes...