English Literature

Written in an accessible and manageable style, the books in the Contexts series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, litera...

Vijay Tendulkar: A Pioneer Playwright speaks volumes of this veteran Indian playwright of international repute. It delves deep into the problematic...

Vikram Seth is one of the most well-known and successful names in the Indian English writing today. Internationally renowned for his artistic skill...

The historic grand narrative of the legendary king Vikramaditya is interspersed with myths and has been scrutinised suspiciously for historical acc...

REVIEWS FROM HARDBACK EDITION: 'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past....

This scholarly book on Virginia Woolf’s experimental novels is an outstanding contribution to Virginia Woolf scholarship. The renewed academic vent...

Volpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605 and ndash;1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and be...

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (1927–2001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as ‘rural’ (grameen) fiction in Marathi in ...

Although politics is supposed to be something dirty that will contaminate the otherwise pure stream of poetry, all great poets right from the days ...

W.B. Yeats: Poetry and Plays studies the poetry and plays of William Butler Yeats, perhaps the greatest poet in the English language of his period,...

W.H. Auden’s Poetry: The Quest for Love is a study of the major twentieth-century British-American poet W.H. Auden’s mutating quest for love in the...

This critical study of a key figure in Victorian literary society examines Walter Pater's work on art history, literature and Greek studies, as wel...

What is Literature? (Routledge Classics) [Paperback] Jean-Paul Sartre

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the natio...

A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully histo...

The book is a comprehensive and critical analysis of selected novels of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor and attempts to examine the “...

The book contains principles, techniques, exercises and practical ideas to make you win in life: to improve your market worth, better your finances...

William Blake (1757 and ndash; 1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. He is considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry an...