English Literature

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his most famous fictional detective Sher...

Silas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge of theft...

Julius Caesar is one of the most popular plays of William Shakespeare, read, annotated and played in schools and colleges in India. In India, the f...

The book contains Blake’s poems and songs. “Poetical Sketches” is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 a...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a twentieth century expatriate writer of Polish-Jewish origins and British upbringing, who chose to make India her home since...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare early in his career between 1591-1595 about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimat...

Rabindranath Tagore’s long life (1861-1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all...

Northanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its freshest ...

Major Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw’s works which mocks religiou...

Once considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human mind in sea...

King Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurer...

Kim, a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling, was published serially in McClure’s Magazine, before being published in book form in 1901. The story is...

Just So Stories is a collection of 12 interesting stories with eccentric myths created by Rudyard Kipling. Most of the stories are fanciful revelat...

Hastily written in pencil and serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899 as “The Heart of Darkness”, and later published in book form in 1902 as He...

The book Jonathan Swift: A Pedagogical Approach tries to analyse the works of Jonathan Swift—an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphlete...

The study-aids available in England and America, among other places, form the basis of The Atlantic Critical Studies which is primarily meant to ca...

Pride and Prejudice is an outstanding English novel that shows Jane Austen at the height of her writing powers. Throughout the novel, the main vehi...

The present book is a critical appreciation of Pride and Prejudice—the most celebrated and unforgettable novel of Jane Austen, who is acknowledged ...

Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism seeks to evaluate canonical Indian English poetry and interpret the poetry of W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, ...

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Engl...

The initial fame of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 was due to Gitanjali which was published fr...

Modern Indian Theatre came into being with the establishment of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music and Dance Drama and the Nation...

This book studies Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the light of his aesthetic principles and major themes. It scrutinizes its symbolistic dimensio...

English language plays a crucial role for any person, group of people or organization in achieving excellence. The language is today well establish...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) on various subjects every year, in June and December. There are thr...

This comprehensive book is designed to serve as guide for all the aspirants appearing in UGC-NET/SLET and other competitive examinations with Engli...

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...

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...

The book contains 41 stories written by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The stories are very interesting to read and engage th...

Emily Brontë appeared first in the literary world as a poet, but she is remembered even today for the single powerful novel, Wuthering Heights, tha...

E.M. Forster's celebrated novel A Passage to India is prescribed in the syllabus of almost all the universities in India, at both the undergraduate...

A Passage to India, E.M. Forster’s masterpiece, which has remained consistently popular and widely studied in India for eight decades, has also eme...

Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, Grant R...

Dryden’s main contribution to literary criticism is represented by An Essay of Dramatic Poesy in which in the form of a lively dialogue his views o...

Do What Matters Most: Simplify Your Overload skillfully plows through the current 95 per cent chaos of nonsense and information overload that is ov...

Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence’s powerful and passionate novel is regarded as one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century....

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s magnum opus The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction in a historical setting. Set in 17th century Puritan Boston, Mas...

The book Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature attempts to analyze Postcolonial poetry, Caribbean poetry, Indian english poetry, Canadian fic...

The human world is perched at an exciting stage of growth that has provided us with a plethora of consumer goods. However, the much-desired mental ...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey’s autographical account. In it, he describes his opium and alcohol addiction and its eff...

Dickens offers us in Hard Times (1854) a morally serious content cast in the form of popular entertainment. The principal motive of Hard Times is t...

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of modesty a...

Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates and provides solutions to language-related real-life probl...

“A memorable book. The best that Anita Desai has written.” —Paul Bailey in the Evening Standard (about In Custody) “The beauty of In Custody is tha...

The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh. Published in 1988, it received the prestigious Sahitya Acade...

Aesop’s Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. The sto...

The novel is based on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, of a confession made to her by a girl in the ...