English Literature

Women in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a se...

To make Shakespeare comprehensible to the eager student is a challenging task and this is what the present work sets out to do. It provides the rea...

This is the first ever comprehensive annotated bibliography on Indian English fiction. It is intended to be a primary source book to be used by the...

William Shakespeare is considered the best poet and dramatist of all ages. His tragic drama Othello has been popular since its first performance at...

Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as the greatest English dramatist and poet. Among the 37 plays that he wrote are included tragedies, comedies an...

King Lear is one of the most difficult plays of Shakespeare. It takes ordinary jealousies, demand for love, sibling rivalries, desire for money and...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work ...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work ...

As You Like It has been acclaimed as the best of the Golden Comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance and pastoralism to ...

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 ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is acclaimed as the best of the early comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance, supernatural f...

Shakespeare is the brightest star in the galaxy of English writers. He excelled in writing all types of drama—Tragedy, Comedy, Romantic and Histori...

Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential play, Macbeth encapsulates the greatest Christian tragedy of all: the Fall of Man. ...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

During the post-war years the experimental tendency in British novel continued, but the critics lamented that the mid-twentieth century British lit...

The present work is a critical study of William Congreve’s Play The Way of the World. It is a comedy of manners and the reader will find eminently ...

William Blake (1757—1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. He was born in Soho, London to James and Catherine Blake. He left his school...

The book contains principles, techniques, exercises and practical ideas to make you win in life: to improve your market worth, better your finances...

Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a scathing critici...

During the year 1866, some ships spot a mysterious sea monster. The US government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the ...

Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and b...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a famous children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, was originally published in 1900. I...

The Waves by Virginia Woolf The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most audacious exploration of the possibilities of the novel form. Instead of narrating h...

The Voyage of the Beagle is the title given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as Journal and Remarks. It covers Darwin’s ...

The Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, called ...

Mr. Utterson goes for a walk with his friend and relative Mr. Enfield, who tells a sad story in which a brute of a man knocks down a little girl, e...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 in the Strand Mag...

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transplanted ...

The Poetry of William Shakespeare includes Shakespeare’s sonnets in complete along with his longer poems Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and...

The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis ...

Besides thirty-seven plays, two volumes of poetry and over 150 sonnets are also attributed to Shakespeare. The volumes of narrative poems that Shak...

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that the Engli...

The Merchant of Venice bases its dramatic logic on the New Testament premise that you get what you give, and the play’s consistent enactment of thi...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In the American edit...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s third crime novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally serialized i...

“Memories are the soul’s ambrosia; they are our lifetime savings in the safe deposit of our minds, true friends we can fall back upon when we need ...

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When the revolutions bega...

Rudyard Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”; “Three an...

The book contains the best short stories written by Hector Hugh Munro under his pen name, Saki. "Reginald" was written after he had given up foreig...

This critical study of Twelfth Night aims at making the play more comprehensible to the common reader. It contains a scene-wise critical summary of...

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, a wry political satire, was completed in December 1928 and first performed in Warsaw (in Polish) in June ...

The Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour and de...

Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the grandeur ...

Rated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable picture o...