English Literature

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, howe...

About the Book In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and to an Orwellian abuse of language that stri...

About the Book In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who l...

About the Book Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights....

About the Book In this strikingly original memoir, Marie Bronsard reweaves the history of her family--and the legend of her grandmother--leaving no...

About the Book Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting...

"Jagdish’s autobiography tells a fascinating life story in a few hundred pages of what it is to be, in one person, a scholar, change agent, advisor...

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and sch...

About the Book This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan populat...

About the Book The narrator in Jean-Luc Benoziglio's Privy Portrait has fallen on hard times. His wife and young daughter have abandoned him, he ha...

About the Book Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continenta...

About the Book It’s the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child ...

Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Sh...

Recorded during Borges’ final years, this third volume of his conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of Ar...

About the Book Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire—a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has d...

About the Book In June 1939, Annemarie schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The fi...

About the Book Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he...

Man's so abrupt a transformation into a self-seeking individualist and the rejection of the Ptolemaic world picture of 1452 and all the Christian d...

Highlighting the voices that have shaped the trajectory of Indian English poetry, Remapping the Canon: A Journey Across Indian Poetry in English pr...

The Wind In The Willows (H.B)

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

About the Book This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein , or A Wilder...

About the Book Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we ...

About the Book Paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s Germany. First Light cov...

About the Book John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership througho...

Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides students with practical guidelines for the complex ...

The last decade saw the emergence andassertion of separate Dalitbahajun women's organizations both at the nationaland regional levels. This asserti...

About the Book In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered ...

About the Book A critical study of the interpretive problems surrounding readings of one of Wordsworth's best-known lyrics. Wordsworth's "Slumber" ...

About the Book Who formed and shaped the English language? David and Hilary Crystal take us on a journey through Britain to discover the people who...

About the Book R. F. Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as "a triumph of scholarship, thought, and e...