English Literature

This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the features that have made him such an important point of...

Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introducti...

Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus and Shakespea...

This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, T...

When little Pinky Chaddha flunks the nursery entrance exams of Bangalore's snootiest school, her hyper ambitious parents hire the one man who can s...

‘and now, in her thirty-sixth year, alamelu, neither beautiful nor attractive enough to enlist sympathy, lay dying … palanichami leaned her more co...

Starting from the 1950s, a time when Sri Lankan society was in great upheaval and political unrest was rampant, new and experimental forms of writi...

Fall Winter Collections is the debut novel of internationally acclaimed author Koral Dasgupta. She has woven together an enchanting tale of romance...

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Island Of Lost Shadows

Presenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, William Allan illustrates the variety and sophistication of these works. He sh...

From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those...

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Literary Theo & Criticism

Hailed by the poet Paul eluard as an ‘absolute masterpiece’ upon its first appearance in 1946, René char’s hypnos is both a remarkable work of lite...

For Honour Honour means different things to different people. For the Khimjas honour is the purity of their race, the continuity of their orthodox ...

In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contempo...

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral t...

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or ab...

The country is on the brink of erupting into nation-wide communal riots. Seven people, supposedly strangers, take refuge in an off-the-highway Chri...

his publication of one hundred and twelve select songs of Tagore, is primarily for those Indian and non-Indian listeners who have no access to the ...

A collection of stories steeped in the flavour and texture of life in Lucknow. The author belongs to an old family of Awadh and was the first Musli...

This book is an attempt to analyse the need to realise that despite there being so many dates dedicated to women, there are 300-odd days when there...

On Evil

Would You Like Some Bread with that Book? and Other Instances of Literary Love

Our Lives Our Words Telling Aravani Lifestories

One of the greatest works of poetry in the modern times, Tagore’s Gitanjali was originally published in Bengali on August 14, 1910 as a collection ...

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at t...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages di...

‘The eternal Dream is borne on the wings of ageless Light that rends the veil of the vague and goes across time weaving ceaseless patterns of Being...

First published in 1973, Bharathipura is about the practice of untouchability in a traditional society that is evolving into modernity through new ...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's My Early Life (1932)-an adaptation of his authoritative autobiography-is one of the earliest books developed by the Pr...

Examining the caste system, culture, religious rules, and traditions, as well as the ambivalent relationship between handed-down cultural values an...

About the Book: Baramulla Bomber An Ancient Weapon from the Vedas and Bible; Once Hunted by the Nazis Powered by the Sound of the Universe; Reborn ...

Reason Faith And Revolution

Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre bas...

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more...

From Botticelli to birdsong, Mozart, and the Turner Prize, Roger Scruton explores what it means for something to be beautiful. This thought-provoki...

Tales of Historic Delhi is the perfect guidebook for families visiting the city, and a whole new way to bring history alive. A Children’s Bookshel...

There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christiani...

What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had i...

This Very Short Introduction introduces the ways in which Spanish literature has been read, in and outside Spain, explaining misconceptions, outlin...

Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English ...

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The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth centu...

Provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics. This title demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of litera...

This volume brings together six well-known plays- 'The Dread Departure', 'Deluge', 'The Terrorist', 'Dynasts', 'Begum Barve', and 'Mickey and the M...