English Literature

Rated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of Miss...

Sense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concerned wit...

Sailing Through My Eyes is a collection of enthralling tales that will keep you attached to the book. If you enjoy reading, you will undoubtedly fa...

Milton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, was composed during the period 1658 to 1664. The first version, published in 1667...

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle ...

Literary studies are supplemented by critiques that offer unique perspectives on diverse and complex concerns influencing every epoch. While litera...

Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the emotions ...

Set in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and narrated by the teenager David Balfour, Kidnapped is an adventure book that focuses very muc...

Phonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the growing relevance of communicat...

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

The present book is an in-depth critical study of the modern American classic, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer P...

As English has evolved from Latin, Greek, Roman, etc. over centuries, assimilating their usages, there are many asymmetries and paradoxes, which ar...

Dr. Faustus is not only the masterpiece of Marlowe, it is one of the most influential of Elizabethan plays. In it, Marlowe has taken one of the bes...

Black Beauty translated from the original Equine, the fictional ‘autobiography’ of a talking horse, first published on 24th November 1877, is Anna ...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. Th...

A history of English literature is a chronological account of the books which have been written in the English language and their authors. Since li...

Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects o...

Also known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written around ...

English has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are generally considered a passpo...

This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent ...

A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully histo...

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the natio...

REVIEWS FROM HARDBACK EDITION: 'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past....

Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a...

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses ho...

Concise and engaging, this text provides pre-service and practicing English language teachers with the knowledge they need to successfully teach th...

This outstanding practical guide to writing analytical essays on literature develops interpretive skills through focused exercises and modeled exam...

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobi...

Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that...

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a ...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, begin...

According to Bowker, there are over 150,000 books published in the U.S. every year. Less than 1 percent of the books published make the bestseller ...

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary...

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues...

Why do we read? What happens to our imaginations when we read? To our knowledge? What creative forces are unleashed? What are the wider implication...

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing...

The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics-Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, L...

The Confident Writer has taught countless students the fundamentals of writing?how to turn a good idea into a full, polished essay?with an eye to a...

An introduction to literary theory unlike any other, Ten Lessons in Theory engages its readers with three fundamental premises. The first premise i...

Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featurin...

Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contem...

Have wireless mobile communication technologies changed the way people talk to one another? This volume takes a global perspective and provides rea...

Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless...

In this inspiring introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare, leading scholar, David Bevington, asks what makes Shakespeare great,...

Sentence Structure: introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose is based on a problem-solving approach to language teac...

Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and autho...

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States ...