Literature & Anthologies

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of idea...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of idea...

Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, Grant Richards in late 1905. After initial enthusiasm for the book, Richards became uncomfortable about sex...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator―often as a daring smuggler of idea...

Ever since the evolution of human civilization, people have developed some or the other self-defense skills. Karate is one such skill that is growing in popularity with the passing of years. But unfortunately, only few are acquainted with the true...

Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the fragilities and foibles of human be...

In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social ...

About the Book Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they’ll bring the five-volume set to completion with the publicat...

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of wo...

Critical Theories: Indian and Western presents a reasonably comprehensive account of the basic concepts in Indian and Western literary criticism. The aim of the book is to acquaint the students of M.A. (English Literature) with the latest critical...

Providing an important introduction, this book is a compilation of judiciously selected, thoroughly edited writings of B. R. Ambedkar. It serves as an excellent guide to the evolution of his thought and should be a ready reference on Ambedkar's mo...

This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the ...

Gaban, first published in 1931, five years before Premchand's death, gives us a fascinating glimpse of north Indian society, and especially of the author's own Kayasth community. The novel also serves to put forth his own deeply-held views of the ...

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of idea...

The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stab...

Midnight’s Children, the second novel of Salman Rushdie, was published in 1981. In this epical novel he speaks of many Indians and many versions of reality. High seriousness of the elderly writers, like Raja Rao or R.K. Narayan, is replaced in his...

Othappu is about a woman's yearning for a true understanding of spirituality and her own sexuality. The novel is a powerful indictment of the hypocrisy that plagues Christianity in many parts of the Subcontinent. Othappu unfolds at many levels to ...

This collection of the short stories of Nobel Laureate and celebrated Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore is the first title in the series The Oxford Tagore, a major new project to publish the English translations of a wide variety of Tagore's writi...

"I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path." Serge Mouret, is an obsessively devout priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. A serious illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowi...

Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, wha...

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety. About the Serie...

गांधी को लेकर एक बड़ा और चर्चित उपन्यास लिख चुके गिरिराज जी इस उपन्यास में कस्तूरबा गांधी को लेकर आए हैं। गांधी जैसे व्यक्तित्व की पत्नी के रूप में एक स्त्री का स्वयं अपने और साथ ही देश की आज़ादी के आन्दोलन से जुदा दोहरा संघर्ष। ऐसे दस्तावेज़ बहुत ...

'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. Wit...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of idea...

Positions features a careful selection from K. Satchidanandan’s essays on Indian literature, written over the past 25 years. The General Theme of the book is Indian literature). The book contains essays that look for paradigms based on Indian text...

About the Book "Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient ...

What are the stages in the life of a butterfly? If you trap a caterpillar in a box, will it blossom into a butterfly? When discrimination and violence are hidden lessons in our schools, can we hope to make a better world? In Just One Word, Bama ta...

Pandit Nehru Aur Anya Mahapurush

Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval...

The passionate but doomed epistolary love affair between a Czech translator and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "Extraordinary...touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, [and] he...

Comprising Holi Flower of Blood God Son As One Discardeth Old Clothes … Autobiography Party Pond Apocalypse Over the years Mahesh Elkunchwar has written and produced some of the most influential and progressive plays of post-Independence India,...

• 100 years of Tamil Dalit Writing (1890–2010) • Represents the work of 41 writers • Includes 78 selections from poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, biography, and archival and contemporary critical prose • Most of the pieces freshly ...

Hegel's India presents, collected together in one volume, all of Hegel's writings on and about India. Hegel also presents a scathing social critique of the caste-order - a theme reiterated in all his works. The central provocative issue is: if Ind...

This book is a collection of plays by one of India's most respected playwrights, and offers for the first time his best-known plays published previously by OUP, together in a single volume.

This book is a collection of over Twenty-Five of his writings from within the walls of prison and outside it, which show us the resolve in his words, and the bravery in his acts subsequently. Bhagat Singh wrote a series of essays which reflects hi...

The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teening and varied life of the Indian Railway station a...

"Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens." The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In...

"...the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul..." What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompas...

Grab a hot cup of coffee, settle in and enjoy dozens of hilarious, inspirational and intriguing stories from the pages of Reader's Digest. Featuring the magazine's best-of-the-best articles, interviews, cartoons, book excerpts and photography, thi...

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intima...

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pira...

Published over eighty years after its inception, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography" edited by Pamela Smith Hill gave readers new insight into the truth behind Wilder's fiction. "Pioneer Girl Perspectives" further demonstrates the importan...

The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry "I write about love, I write about friendship," remarked Thom Gunn...

Title: The Diary of a Citizen of Paris during 'The Terror' ... Translated & edited by John De Villiers. With two portraits.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the sca...

The product of hundreds of scholars collaborating with the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program over ten years, this is the first Spanish-language anthology to bring together literature from the history of Hispanic writing in the U...

An expansive and complete anthology of ancient literature is at your fingertips. Spanning one thousand years of literature and history, The Essential Classics is your portal into the days of antiquity. From Homer to Marcus Aurelius, The Essential ...

Title: A War Diary of events in the war of the Great Rebellion. 1863-1865.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries h...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scann...

Title: Diary of the Times of Charles the Second by the Honourable Henry Sidney, afterwards Earl of Romney; including his correspondence with the Countess of Sunderland and other distinguished persons at the English Court; to which are added letter...

What if Kein (Cain), the jealous farmer who murdered his brother Aveel (Abel), still walks among humans-cursed with immortality?Blood and Gospel Saga (The Cursed Ink of Angelo Markado and Angelo Markado and the Blessed Vessel) is a gripping reimag...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scann...

Title: Euryalus; Tales of the sea, a few leaves from the diary of a midshipman. [By William Chimmo. With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of t...

Title: My Diary in Mexico in 1867, including the last days of the Emperor Maximilian; with leaves from the diary of the Princess Salm-Salm, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the...

Title: The Diary of a Citizen of Paris during 'The Terror' ... Translated & edited by John De Villiers. With two portraits.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scann...

Title: My diary in America in the midst of war.Author: George Augustus SalaPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books,...