Arts, Literature, and Humanities

The founder Chairman of one of the largest companies in India, Khanna Consumer Products and Industries Limited (KCPIL), dies of old age—and the inh...

Alice Munro has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (2013) for her short-story collections. The greatest short-story writer of Canada, she h...

The present volume includes critical and insightful essays on ‘Native Responses’ to contemporary Indian English Novel. Nativism as an ideology cann...

These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian religions.

This nightmarish tale by H.G. Wells contains all the suspense and adventure of science fiction at its best. It begins with a quiet country inn and ...

(1) Pride And Prejudice: In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money...

Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by ...

Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intellect and ou...

The Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vatsyayana, is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior. A portio...

This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject. Special attention is devoted to highlighting the comp...

The Landlord’s Secret and Other Stories is a collection of eleven mystery and adventure stories featuring Ramesh, an adventure loving and self-styl...

Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was alr...

The Lasting Legacies of Mulk Raj Anand: A Tribute foregrounds Anand the writer, Anand the man, Anand the thinker and Anand the iconoclast. This col...

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary...

This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India. It interrogates the limits of sexuality edu...

Sambhu, a tribal boy, acts as his father’s stand-in in a dhaba-cum-brothel. This occurs after his family desert their ancient village in Kalahandi ...

Homi Bhabha is one of that small group occupying the front ranks of cultural theoretical thought. Any serious discussion of post-colonial/postmoder...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest English Romantic poets, and is regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, and o...

According to Bowker, there are over 150,000 books published in the U.S. every year. Less than 1 percent of the books published make the bestseller ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architectural studies. His characters are primitive a...

The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In the American edit...

The Merchant of Venice is a 16th century play written by Shakespeare between 1596-1598 in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan p...

The Merchant of Venice bases its dramatic logic on the New Testament premise that you get what you give, and the play’s consistent enactment of thi...