English Literature

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

About the Book Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had be...

The Family Saga: A Novel Set In The Time Of Partition (P.B)

The Eyes of the Thar brings the desert in western Rajasthan alive through the sensitive eyes of the multi-talented artist Satish Gupta. His poetry ...

The Event Of Literature by Terry Eagleton, 8170463556, 9788170463559, Seagull Books

This balanced selection of Gandhi s writings, taken from his letters, articles, and books, represents the complete cross-section of his thought, fr...

About the Book The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting...

About the Book English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are 'binominal' (two-noun) phrases (...

About the Book The discipline of rhetoric--adapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman, Medieval, a...

About the Book My father bought me from the council for 365 francs, recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reaso...

About the Book In The Emperor of Ice-Cream , we are introduced to Lucia. Now in her eighties, this daughter of Italian immigrants looks back on her...

About the Book The most concentrated and wide-ranging study of Walter Scott's work available. This Companion is the first collection of its kind de...

About the Book This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The boo...

About the Book He was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question. After the sudden death of his wife, two years after...

This new edition of Webster's macabre masterpiece is accompanied by insightful commentary notes and a detailed introductory analysis of the play wr...

Editorial Reviews - The Death of Abbie Hoffman and Other Plays

About the Book Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that ...

About the Book Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, this book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the "Dancing Poet"--in whom t...

The br>cuckoo’s nest is the story of br>Madam Agatha, a former devout nun who, after renouncing the order, decides to take up the cudgels for...

‘The source of your insult is not anyone outside it is in yourself. There are other princes besides you. They always bear in mind that I am their t...

‘My song will be like a pair of wings to your dreams, it will transport your heart to the verge of the unknown. It will be like the faithful star o...

About the Book 'The Comic Mode' is an introductory guide to comedy in English literature that systematically applies comic theory to a wide range o...

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

About the Book The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie offers the first collected, scholarly edition of poetical writings of one of the most ce...

About the Book ...one sees in this collected volume, the best collected volume, so far, of not only an Indian poet but any poet for the last tenth ...

About the Book This is the long-awaited supplementary volume to the authoritative seven-volume edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, ed...

About the Book The importance of A. W. N. Pugin (1812-52) in the history of the Gothic Revival, in the development of ecclesiology, in the origins ...

About the Book The Cold of May Day Monday offers an indvidual view of the history of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the prese...

This must-have collection includes Kipling's well loved stories including The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories, Stalky & Co. and of course Kim....

This classic collection includes the British author's most influential works, from The Portrait of a Lady to the Aspern Papers. Part of a beautiful...

Charles Dickens' ability to observe and record human character and environment have placed him at the top table of English fiction writers alongsid...

Thirteen essays that aim to illuminate the achievement of one of England's greatest modern writers. Employing a variety of perspectives - historica...

About the Book This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern o...

A self-obsessed Calcutta detective who goes by his last name `Kar’, an enigmatic internet cafe hostess in Seoul, and a hotshot geneticist labouring...

To begin afresh, after her broken marriage, Saoli returns to India and starts living in prembajar at the house her grandfather had bought from Bita...

Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world – noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slu...

About the Book Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain--their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a c...

About the Book A magnificent example of Widmer's characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination. In the wildly entertaining ...

About the Book Pragmatism provides not just a theoretical perspective on science and inquiry, but ways of being in the world, of knowing the realit...

About the Book Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (1925-2018) was an iconic figure in the field of linguistics and the pioneer responsible for the...

From the Publisher Three main challenges faced me as I prepared this fifth edition of The Bedford Handbook. First, because today's computer-age stu...

THE BAG zooms in on one of the all too many poignant mini-dramas that are played out in the conflict zones of North-East India, where no one ‘wins’...

About the Book In The Avant-Garde, Mike Sell rejects the common idea that the avant-garde is only about art and insists that it is much more than a...

About the Book The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features drawn fr...

About the Book Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional film script, Tariq Ali suggests ...

The Islamic state has spread its tentacles in India, penetrating stealthily into the academia, media and politics. The mastermind is Shamsur Ali, a...

About the Book Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar year...