English Literature

About the Book Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a retired Ottoman notable, retires to its ...

The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, the Spanish tra...

About the Book In this book leading scholars address the issues surrounding the syntax-phonology interface. These principally concern whether the p...

About the Book In The Song Seekers , the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and ...

About the Book In The Shadow-Boxing Woman, a novel from German writer Inka Parei, a decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell...

About the Book The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an explorati...

About the Book There are few if any voices more distinct in contemporary French literature than that of Pascal quignard, a prolific writer of rare ...

The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our unde...

About the Book Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies ...

This book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist a...

About the Book D.H. Lawrence's literary eminence has risen steadily over the past 75 years. In the first book-length study devoted to his controver...

About the Book The Pleasures of Babel acquaints the layperson and the expert alike with the creative and intellectual achievements of America's mul...

About the Book In this book, Mehrotra has put together an unusually sensitive selection of fine verse in English by some of his best contemporaries...

About the Book This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), ...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes origina...

This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive...

About the Book Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, sco...

About the Book Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the...

About the Book With compelling selections by some of the world's most respected and critically acclaimed writers, The New World Reader encourages e...

The Narrative Art of the" Canterbury Tales" (Everyman's University Library) Book Description

The mountain of the moon is a story about taking a chance dare which, with its wings of imagination, leads you to the silver lining after a storm. ...

About the Book Approaching The Mill on the Floss from a variety of critical perspectives, Ashton reveals how George Eliot translated her unconventi...

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The...

About the Book Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practica...

About the Book The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken's writings in their relation to Victoria...

About the Book This is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the realization of t...

About the Book 'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.'...

About the Book Praise for the previous edition "I am sorry it did not exist when I was a student... and I expect it to be a useful addition to ever...

About the Book Bad-ass, bee's knees, and bomb-diffity - slang rules Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents complain of the slang-infested...

About the Book The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life ...

About the Book 'Because you're worth it', proclaims the classic cosmetics ad. 'Just do it ' implores the global sports retailer. Everywhere we turn...

Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, if greater falsehood ever has been done'. The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge fo...

About the Book The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mar...

About the Book Giving identity to over a billion people, the Indian Constitution is one of the world's great political texts. Drafted over six deca...

The thirteen stories in this compilation are the truest representation of life by the Bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore. These heart-warming shor...

Calcutta is the central character in each of the three stories in this book. As all Bengalis will tell you, even when the city stands quietly in th...

About the Book Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the ...

About the Book The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from it...

About the Book The Handbook of Speech Production is the first reference work to provide an overview of this burgeoning area of study. Twenty-four c...

A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the strugg...

About the Book The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in...

About the Book Offering an interdisciplinary approach, The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction presents a series of contributions writt...

The Good Person Of Szechwan [Paperback] BERTOLT BRECHT

One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Willia...

‘The long story of my coming hither lies there dumb, in one meandering line of dust stretching from the morning hilltop to the brink of bottomless ...

"Aditi Rao's writing is imbued with the attentiveness of a lepidopterist, the tenderness of an epicurean and the quiet, unflinching fortitude one a...