English Literature

The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of simplified readers for learners of English.

About the Book Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book written in English in the nineteenth century, transforme...

About the Book "Of course I had to end up here . . ." Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks t...

About the Book The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected cri...

Table Of Contents: General Editor's NotePublisher's NoteIntroduction1Contemporary Reviews[Review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]21[Review of The A...

Editorial Reviews - Critical Essays on H. G. Wells All Marketplace (--) New (--) Used (--) CLOSE X LOADING... We're sorry. Information from our Tru...

Editorial Reviews - Critical Essays on Charles Dickens' Bleak House Booknews Each of the eight essays was selected not only for its particular cont...

About the Book Reprinted and newly commissioned essays address topics spanning the career of British poet Tennyson (1809-92), focus on eight partic...

Describes the personal and political disaster resulting from excessive pride, ambition, and contempt for one's fellow man, suggests a fresh interpr...

About the Book Ninar Esber talks to her father, the poete Adonis, in ten very personal interviews about his education, his feelings about Islam, po...

About the Book Conversable Worlds addresses the emergence of the idea of 'the conversation of culture'. Around the year 1700 a new commercial socie...

About the Book Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and m...

Notwithstanding its renowned comprehensive narrative encapsulation of the Indic culture, the Mahabharata keeps on posing a challenge to its contemp...

About the Book Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman provides a detailed account of one of the central personified figures in William Lan...

About the Book In the late seventeenth century, theater and print began the history of their tense relations and imperfect alliance. Plays, of cour...

About the Book From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambi...

About the Book Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrot...

About the Book Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this intellectual biography of Colette--the final volume of Julia Kristeva's tri...

About the Book Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, a...

About the Book For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status a...

About the Book Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in th...

About the Book From its birth in the dying days of the nineteenth century to its hi-tech proliferation today, cinema has been a mote in the eye of ...

About the Book In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. In...

Recreates a period when religious conflict made people live in fear and suspicion, and portrays John Donne, the poet, whose needs and nature mirror...

About the Book The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who re...

About the Book The amazing inter-cultural correspondence (1919-1940) between two cultural icons of the twentieth century, Nobel laureates from the ...

About the Book One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight a lion lying on the floor as if it's the...

Describes the background of Bleak House, discusses its themes, and looks at its critical reception

About the Book In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Rood...

About the Book This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams s contribution to moral philosophy, a fi...

About the Book Ben Jonson's Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. However, the ...

The first novel of one of the best writers today, koveru kazhuthaigal is located in the early 1970s when ritual status and payment in kind were giv...

About the Book Ajji, can I have some water?... Just a few drops will do, Ajji. With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cact...

About the Book A moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish...

About the Book Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi reg...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Audiovisual Translation (AVT) in India. It examines the AVT of TV advertisements, analyses trend...

About the Book When Anna discovers a long letter that her mother Marie wrote, Marie has been dead for some time, and Anna is shocked to learn that ...

About the Book "Gone, finito , The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than d...

About the Book Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of im...

About the Book The first woman to practice law in India and Britain, Cornelia Sorabji founded the League for Infant Welfare, Maternity and District...

About the Book This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: 'Why don't we live when we know we're here just th...

About the Book One of the greatest and most versatile writers in the Bengali literary sphere succeeding Tagore, Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974) was a...