English Literature

This is an in-depth study of Bernard Shaw’s concept of the superman, a study remarkable for its readability and scholarly treatment of the subject ...

The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in three Acts. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social oblig...

The present book seeks to bring out the contours of the Indian novel with a social purpose which has stuck deep roots in the Indian soil by imagina...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, and patt...

Evelyn Waugh is widely regarded as the most brilliant satirical English novelist of his day. He also wrote short stories, travel books, nonfiction,...

The present work contains an in-depth analytical study of some aspects of considerably recent Indian history in six works of Indian English fiction...

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that the Engli...

Anita Desai’s work represents a unique blending of the Indian and the western. Her novels catch the bewilderment of the individual psyche confronte...