English Literature

About the Book The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200-90...

About the Book This book explores the complex ways in which authors, publishers, and readers contributed to the making of Restoration poetry. The e...

The little prince is a tender tale of friendship, love and loss by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Originally published as Le petit pr...

About the Book Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic politician, writer, and historian living during the twelfth century. He was a man of great politic...

About the Book Bloody was once a shocking word. It was used largely by the working classes and caused their betters to shudder with horror. But Blo...

About the Book This book looks at how English words have been recorded, ordered, dissected, and displayed in dictionaries in Great Britain and the ...

About the Book The publication of Volumes VII and VIII completes this major edition of the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, an edition comprising...

About the Book This study places the last three novels of Victor Hugo's maturity - Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), L'Homme qui rit (1869), and Q...

About the Book When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime--an all expenses paid holiday to any destinat...

The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza is an exciting tale from the Hamzanama, a Persian epic. It was a favourite of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar. In this ...

The jungle Book is a children’s classic that remains a favourite of each generation that reads it. The unforgettable characters of Mowgli, the litt...

About the Book One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Ren Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as "the conscience of modern French po...

About the Book The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language ...

About the Book This illustrated chronicle of the Sikhs written by one of India's best-loved writers - Khushwant Singh, comprehensively records the ...

Examines the historical background, critical reception, plot, characters, setting, themes, and structure of Hawthorne's novel

About the Book The first handbook to explore the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in elementary and secondary education (K...

About the Book Literature for children is a distinctive achievement of the Bengali language. In it, we get numerous illustrations of primers that a...

This is a book about romantic moments, heart-throbbing moments, soul-stirring moments and enchanted moments that have inspired poets, enlivened cou...

About the Book Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had be...

The Eyes of the Thar brings the desert in western Rajasthan alive through the sensitive eyes of the multi-talented artist Satish Gupta. His poetry ...

About the Book English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases (...

About the Book My father bought me from the council for 365 francs, recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reaso...

About the Book In The Emperor of Ice-Cream , we are introduced to Lucia. Now in her eighties, this daughter of Italian immigrants looks back on her...

About the Book Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that ...

About the Book Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, this book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the "Dancing Poet"--in whom t...

About the Book The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie offers the first collected, scholarly edition of poetical writings of one of the most ce...

About the Book This is the long-awaited supplementary volume to the authoritative seven-volume edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ed...

About the Book The importance of A. W. N. Pugin (1812-52) in the history of the Gothic Revival, in the development of ecclesiology, in the origins ...

About the Book The Cold of May Day Monday offers an indvidual view of the history of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the prese...

This must-have collection includes Kipling's well loved stories including The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories, Stalky & Co. and of course Kim....

This classic collection includes the British author's most influential works, from The Portrait of a Lady to the Aspern Papers. Part of a beautiful...

Charles Dickens' ability to observe and record human character and environment have placed him at the top table of English fiction writers alongsid...

About the Book This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern o...

About the Book Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain--their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a c...

About the Book A magnificent example of Widmer's characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination. In the wildly entertaining ...

About the Book The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features drawn fr...

About the Book Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar year...

About the Book Each title in the Literary and Cultural Movements: Sources and Documents series concentrates on the cultural and literary area or pe...

About the Book Each title in the Literary and Cultural Movements: Sources and Documents series concentrates on the cultural and literary area or pe...

About the Book Discourse is a battlefield, and texts (in the broadest sense) are weapons in such battles. Contemporary India has become a major bat...

When you are trying to find a way out of the silence, you need words. I have this feeling when reading Indian women writers that they are as Rushdi...

In this epic novel, the author examines the very fibre of contemporary Indian life in terms of post-Independence and the post-Gandhian scene. Recei...

A notable contribution on Tagore’s vision of womanhood This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subje...

About the Book The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly ...

About the Book An exciting, seven-level course that enhances young learners' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their languag...

About the Book An exciting, seven-level course that enhances young learners' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their languag...