English Literature

This Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapter, from early modernist theatre throug...

In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Looking at Goethe’s poetry, novels and dr...

From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eight...

The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and fil...

Matira Manisha (‘The Man of the Soil’) is one of those uncommon artistic creations which prove that good art does not have to be convoluted or obsc...

When he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan. That camp—a ...

The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between...

For years, Nepal was ravaged by a civil war. On one side were the King and the democratically elected government, on the other side were brutal Mao...

‘[T]his is no fiction. I have scars on my body and my soul to prove this.’ Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early ...

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the b...

Toby Litt is best known for his “hip-lit” fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always ta...

Love is divine, love is pristine. Love could be agony, love could be bliss. It’s God’s wonderful gift. All are not ordained to be smitten by the lo...

Originally published in Italian in 1965, a test of powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian intellectual life. By the tim...

In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the wor...

This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the features that have made him such an important point of...

Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introducti...

Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus and Shakespea...

This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, T...

When little Pinky Chaddha flunks the nursery entrance exams of Bangalore's snootiest school, her hyper ambitious parents hire the one man who can s...

‘and now, in her thirty-sixth year, alamelu, neither beautiful nor attractive enough to enlist sympathy, lay dying … palanichami leaned her more co...

Starting from the 1950s, a time when Sri Lankan society was in great upheaval and political unrest was rampant, new and experimental forms of writi...

Fall Winter Collections is the debut novel of internationally acclaimed author Koral Dasgupta. She has woven together an enchanting tale of romance...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Island Of Lost Shadows

While much work has been done on exploring the communal tensions of the Independence era and the lode of ‘partition stories’ has been sufficiently ...

Gender, Space and Creative Imagination is about contemporary women’s writing in India and its experiential, ideological and representational topogr...

Presenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, William Allan illustrates the variety and sophistication of these works. He sh...

From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Literary Theo & Criticism

Hailed by the poet Paul eluard as an ‘absolute masterpiece’ upon its first appearance in 1946, René char’s hypnos is both a remarkable work of lite...

Ashapurna Devi, one of the foremost Indian women writers, was born in colonial Bengal in 1909. She lived until 1995, witnessing the transitions and...

For Honour Honour means different things to different people. For the Khimjas honour is the purity of their race, the continuity of their orthodox ...

In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contempo...

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral t...

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or ab...

The country is on the brink of erupting into nation-wide communal riots. Seven people, supposedly strangers, take refuge in an off-the-highway Chri...

his publication of one hundred and twelve select songs of Tagore, is primarily for those Indian and non-Indian listeners who have no access to the ...

A collection of stories steeped in the flavour and texture of life in Lucknow. The author belongs to an old family of Awadh and was the first Musli...

In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with...

Ahmed Ali (1910-1994), multitalented, bilingual writer, poet, scholar, translator, critic, and anthologist, is one of the stalwarts in the South As...

Anthologies provide ready, expansive insights into specific forms of literature. In the genre of poetry, nuptial poetry is singularly under-represe...

The Postcolonial Mind: Urdu Culture, Islam and Modernity in Muhammad Hasan Askari

Ruskin Bond: The Mussoorie Years... is a delightful tribute to a friend of forty years. Ganesh Saili captures memorable moments in the life of Rusk...

This book is an attempt to analyse the need to realise that despite there being so many dates dedicated to women, there are 300-odd days when there...

On Evil

Would You Like Some Bread with that Book? and Other Instances of Literary Love