English Literature

Heart of Darkness is the finest of all Conrad's tales, showing him at the height of his powers as a writer of great vividness, intensity, and sophi...

“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents o...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to just Hamlet, was written by Shakespeare sometime between 1599–1602. It is arguably o...

Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was an immediate success and was read 'from the Cabinet - council to the Nursery' (Gay). It continues ...

The book combines general rules of English language for common users as well as complex issues for expert philologists. It contains the chief pecul...

Great Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally considered to be...

The growing trend of inter-cultural migration brought by global market forces has infused fresh interest among people across the world in learning ...

One of the most acclaimed Russian works of literature, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev is a philosophical fiction cutting across a wide-ranging s...

The story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simultaneou...

The book presents the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It aims to create in every student th...

NET is one of the most difficult examinations, more so because the syllabus is very vast and only a few lucky ones can cross the threshold, especia...

Emma was the last novel which Jane Austen lived to see through the press and is perhaps her most accomplished and representative work, happily comb...

A manager of a stationary shop with a meagre salary, Ganpat has tried his best to keep his wife, Gomati, and his two children, Ganesh and Geeta, ha...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. In the heart ...

Literary theory with an intellectual ancestry of over 2300 years is a highly complex and fascinating discipline. It is highly inter-disciplinary an...

Candida, a classic comedy, was written in 1894. Set in London’s East End during the Victorian era, the play is about the domestic turmoil that ensu...

The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. First published in 19...

Arms and the Man, one of Shaw’s most glittering comedies, was first produced on 21st April, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as par...

Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The title of the book literally means “the things concerning the polis.” The end of the Ni...

Antony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1623. The plot ...

Anglophone Literature from Northeast India and Women’s Writing examines the literary works published in English that gauge the society, culture, no...

The book is based on the uniform pattern of syllabus for M.A. in English for Indian Universities prescribed by the UGC. It is comprehensive and cov...

Lewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, mark an epoch in the history of dream lite...

When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their f...

James Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a key wo...

Literary theory is a systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. Literary theory and literary critici...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy in five acts by Shakespeare, written about 1595-96 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition from the author's ma...

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.” A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the heartwarming stor...

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘science of translatin...

There is no dearth of books on literary and/or related terms. However, any new book of some worth is invariably expected to add something new to th...

Hemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a book.' In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's most celebrat...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a guide to the rules of good written British English including British English usage, pronunciation, and wr...

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley's argume...

This textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and talk...

Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century explores how digital literary forms shape and are s...

This book is the third edition of a successful textbook. Essentials of Early English is a practical and highly accessible introduction to the early...

A Complete Guide to Literary Analysis and Theory offers an accessible introduction to all the current approaches to literary analysis. Ranging from...

Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempe...

The book is a collection of twenty-five published and unpublished short stories. The major issues in contemporary Indian society, like misdeeds of ...

This edition contains all the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare with a critical appreciation of each for the benefit of all the University and College stu...

Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel, first published in 1895. Taking place during the American Civil War, it is the story about...

A classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the account o...

The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social oblig...

The Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without complex literary ...

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, published in 1858 in is R.M. Ballantyne’s most famous novel. It is one of the pioneer works of juven...

The Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 and first publi...