English Literature

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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...

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952, underline...

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...

What is Literature? (Routledge Classics) [Paperback] Jean-Paul Sartre

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

The book Higher English Grammar and Composition is based on Modern English Grammar which has its base in descriptive linguistics and describes the ...

For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. ...

Blake was a visionary like no other. To some, like William Wordsworth, the only explanation for the remarkable spiritual world Blake witnessed and ...

The Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana, is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior. A portio...

The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, or simply Othello, is a tragedy written in approximately 1603. One of Shakespeare's most tightly woven ...

This lucid and concise overview of India's macroeconomy presents a comprehensive assessment of governmental policies and measures crucial to econom...

Neuropsychologists are trained to assess Alzheimer’s disease and make differential diagnosis, especially differentiating between major depression a...

“A growing tendency among modern mothers has been to avoid breastfeeding. These mothers are ignorant of the facts like that it reduces cardiovascul...

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...

The Tempest, a play in five acts, is believed to have been written in 1610-1611 and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wr...

Lucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her formidable elder sister Katherine is wedded off. The wily Petruchio plans a courtship with tou...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on the true histor...

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

Dracula, published in 1897, is the most famous of all tales of vampirism. Presented in diaries, letters and news items, this story of the bloodsuck...

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...

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...