English Literature

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a famous children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, was originally published in 1900. I...

This book studies Thomas Hardy’s portrayal of women in the Victorian period in England, still struggling for their essential human rights. Victoria...

The book presents in brief a critical study of Saul Bellow’s vision of woman in general. As the novelist has presented a variety of women having co...

The present research work The Western Drama is a pioneer work in European drama and theatre. The subject matter of the book has been divided into t...

The Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of narrating h...

The Voyage of the Beagle is the title given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks. It covers Darwin’s ...

Alice Munro, one of the greatest short story writers of all times, has through her inexplicable art of storytelling added new dimensions to the sho...

The book explores the shifting perceptions on the body and the self in the Indian socio-cultural and cultural situations from the psychological ang...

The Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, called ...

Mr. 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 little girl, e...

American literature is literary work produced in the United States and its preceding colonies. Historically, its literary tradition begins as linke...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 in the Strand Mag...

The 1980’s and after has created a typical post-modern anxiety with the advent of Salman Rushdie as an influential diaspora writer. This book is co...

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transplanted ...

The Poetry of William Shakespeare includes Shakespeare’s sonnets in complete along with his longer poems Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and...

The present anthology of interpretative essays and research papers is a unique effort to approach the great nineteenth-century American poet Walt W...

The lasting fame and influence of Tennyson must rest upon the great works into which he has put the fullness of his strength and the freshness of h...

This book fulfils the difficult task of quickening, and elucidating, fortifying and enlarging the poetry of two important poets of our time: Robert...

The Poetry of Robert Browning is a major study of Browning and his art. It marks an improvement over the earlier studies of Browning’s poetry in th...

Nissim Ezekiel is probably the most famous living Indian poet in English. Displaying a dedication of heroic dimensions to his vocation, he has crea...

John Keats was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He belonged to a ...

The book presents some of the unexplored facts about Keats’ poetry. Keats has been an important poet of romanticism. The poetic works of John Keats...

The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis ...

A.K. Ramanujan represents the quintessential Indian English poet engaged in a relentless quest for self in the welter of tradition and contemporary...

Nissim Ezekiel is one of those few men of letters who become legends in their life-time. A playwright of credentials, a critic of encyclopaedic ran...

Besides thirty-seven plays, two volumes of poetry and over 150 sonnets are also attributed to Shakespeare. The volumes of narrative poems that Shak...

An established literary giant of all times, T.S. Eliot has attracted immense amount of critical attention. This book discusses the plays of T.S. El...

This book is based on the myths in the plays of Girish Karnad. The four major plays Hayavadana, Yayati, Nagamandala and The Fire and the Rain have ...

The present book, The Plays of Eugene O’Neill : A Critical Study, is a full-length study of Eugene O’Neill’s major plays. O’Neil, who was awarded t...

Every age has its definitive moments of literature. In the twentieth century, the staging of The Waiting for Godot was one such milestone. The mass...

The Old Drama and the New (1923) is a major contribution of Archer’s matured scholarship. The book contains “with slight additions and retrenchment...

The Novels of William Golding seeks to explore both the structures of Golding’s novels in some detail and their meanings in a sufficiently sustaine...

Postmodernism and Afro-American literary discourse are closely entwined in the fiction of Toni Morrison, argue the writers in this pioneering book....

R.K. Narayan is ranked among the greatest novelists of the world and certainly he is a great literary figure of English in India in 20th century. A...

Dr. Mulk Raj Anand, through his rare prolificity, bold experimentation and aesthetic sensibility, has made immense contribution to Indian as well a...

Mulk Raj Anand, the doyen of Indian English fiction, whose writing career spanned nearly four decades, has carved out a permanent niche in the lite...

The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand: A New Critical Spectrum includes twelve insightful essays which not only shed new light on the old classics like Unto...

Mulk Raj Anand is one of the best known novelists in English in India. Translated into many languages in India as well as abroad, he has been unive...

The present book provides a critical analysis of all the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway, a twentieth century American novelist who go...

The Novels of E.M. Forster discusses the works of E.M. Forster in the context of ethical and aesthetic patterns particularly focusing on the fusion...

The present book is a grateful acknowledgement of the contribution of D.H. Lawrence in the arena of literature during the twentieth century. A reno...

C.P. Snow is a prominent figure in modern English fiction with his famous ‘Strangers and Brothers’ sequence of novels and other works. ‘The Novels ...

The Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya analyses the literary genre of Bhabani Bhattacharya through his six novels. Bhabani Bhattacharya (1906—1988) was...

The present book is an addition to the study of Arun Joshi’s novels in the context of the theme of the crisis of identity in the post-modern world ...

Arun Joshi’s fictional world is most strange. Peeling the multiple layers of artificiality, his protagonists seek to confront the mystery of life b...

Anita Desai’s work represents a unique blending of the Indian and the western. Her novels catch the bewilderment of the individual psyche confronte...

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that the Engli...