English Literature

Why do we read? What happens to our imaginations when we read? To our knowledge? What creative forces are unleashed? What are the wider implication...

George Bernard Shaw, (26th July, 1856, Dublin, Ireland—2nd November, 1950, Hertfordshire, England), was an Irish playwright, author, literary criti...

The God of Small Things, the international best seller by Arundhati Roy, has raised numerous questions. Is it a piece of anti-Communist propaganda?...

The God of Small Things : A Saga of Lost Dreams is an attempt to make an in-depth study of Arundhati Roy’s epoch making novel which has brought lau...

The Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without complex literary ...

Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject an...

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues...

The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history,...

Like Criticism, Translation Is Always A Text About A Text And Hence It Is A Metatext. We Translate By Intuition. There Is No Science Of Translating...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's third crime novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally serialized i...

Simon Glendinning provides a clear picture of the current state of the contemporary philosophical culture by tracing the origins and development of...

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...