English Literature

Our Lives Our Words Telling Aravani Lifestories

One of the greatest works of poetry in the modern times, Tagore’s Gitanjali was originally published in Bengali on August 14, 1910 as a collection ...

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at t...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages di...

‘The eternal Dream is borne on the wings of ageless Light that rends the veil of the vague and goes across time weaving ceaseless patterns of Being...

First published in 1973, Bharathipura is about the practice of untouchability in a traditional society that is evolving into modernity through new ...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's My Early Life (1932)-an adaptation of his authoritative autobiography-is one of the earliest books developed by the Pr...

Examining the caste system, culture, religious rules, and traditions, as well as the ambivalent relationship between handed-down cultural values an...

About the Book: Baramulla Bomber An Ancient Weapon from the Vedas and Bible; Once Hunted by the Nazis Powered by the Sound of the Universe; Reborn ...

Reason Faith And Revolution

Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out. But few know that a month after the au...

An active career spanning seven decades is unusual. And to describe Ashoka Gupta (1912-2008) simply as a ‘social worker’ is not enough. Till the la...

Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre bas...

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more...

From Botticelli to birdsong, Mozart, and the Turner Prize, Roger Scruton explores what it means for something to be beautiful. This thought-provoki...

Tales of Historic Delhi is the perfect guidebook for families visiting the city, and a whole new way to bring history alive. A Children’s Bookshel...

Set in the turbulent 1920s against the backdrop of India's Freedom Movement, this novel is set in Munganda village-a microcosm of an India through ...

A tribute to one of India’s greatest personalities on the occasion of his hundred and fiftieth birth anniversary. The book highlights those inciden...

There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christiani...

What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had i...

This Very Short Introduction introduces the ways in which Spanish literature has been read, in and outside Spain, explaining misconceptions, outlin...

Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English ...

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The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth centu...

Provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics. This title demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of litera...

This volume brings together six well-known plays- 'The Dread Departure', 'Deluge', 'The Terrorist', 'Dynasts', 'Begum Barve', and 'Mickey and the M...

Mutual trust is an essential element of a globalized economy, and a market economy without trust leads only to further disaster. If we want to ensu...

This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions i...

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, reve...

Three Plays

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These three intense narratives are set in distinctly diverse yet paradoxically convergent worlds tailing the trajectory of some very unusual bonds....

An overview of all aspects of Indian English.

I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result o...

A quarter century after the war that was meant to bring liberation to Bangladesh, Mukti, a researcher, comes into Mariam's life, calling up memorie...

The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and genera...

Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading ...

This book throws up questions largely considered taboo in traditional societies and compels the reader to address them honestly. It telescopes the ...

This book presents the life stories and poems of six well-known saint-poets of north India-Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas-who...

This is an exploration of how three English writers-Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood-all three of whom shared a similar se...

Wrong Number And Other Stories

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Mahesh Dattani is the foremost Indian English dramatist today. The pioneering study makes an attempt at evaluating the major plays of Dattani in te...

Poet, translator, folklorist, A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This boo...

This is a richly illustrated anthology of the great hunter and conservationist's best writing, selected from his many popular works. The collection...

When a poet turns to prose the result is sometimes astonishing, and The Collected Essays of A K Ramanujan--which is part Indology, part treatise on...