English Literature

A lucid, comprehensive yet compact text focusing on core language skills in English including vocabulary building, lexis, syntax, and communicative...

Volpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605–1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable....

The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behavior and customs of upper classes through witty dialogue and an intricate ...

(1) The Jungle Books: - Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch b...

In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where, in sp...

Oliver Twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh Poor Law of 1834, and a grim picture of the sordid reality the London underworld of Dickens's times, ...

Candide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ as his men...

Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, being a dem...

Thinking of the usefulness and the great popularity of the first eight editions of the book, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and considering t...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sl...

About the Book Spevack emphasizes the complexity of Julius Caesar's seemingly straightforward theatrical experience to focus on the inextricability...

About the Book Featuring clear and comprehensive guidance on the nuts and bolts of grammar, this concise volume will help students to break their b...

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George Eliot, author of "Middlemarch", Adam Bede", "Silas Marner", "Felix Holt" and "Mill on the Floss" was the greatest literary heroine of the 19...

About the Book David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and...

About the Book Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly po...

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, howe...

About the Book In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who l...

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and sch...

Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Sh...

Recorded during Borges’ final years, this third volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Ar...

About the Book In June 1939, Annemarie schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The fi...

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

About the Book Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we ...

Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides students with practical guidelines for the complex ...

About the Book In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered ...

About the Book R. F. Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as "a triumph of scholarship, thought, and e...

About the Book This is an anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays, written by established and emerging Israeli playwrights and theatre creato...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623068); This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women wr...

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It is 1981. Delhi summer. A small office.  Three “hungry” minds brainstorming launch strategy of a product. They have been doing this for the past...

About the Book Why Study Linguistics is designed to help anyone with an interest in studying language understand what linguistics is, and what ling...