English Literature

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...

This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jar...

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...

Arun Joshi’s fictional world is most strange. Peeling the multiple layers of artificiality, his protagonists seek to confront the mystery of life b...

The present book is an addition to the study of Arun Joshi’s novels in the context of the theme of the crisis of identity in the post-modern world ...

The Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya analyses the literary genre of Bhabani Bhattacharya through his six novels. Bhabani Bhattacharya (1906—1988) was...

C.P. Snow is a prominent figure in modern English fiction with his famous ‘Strangers and Brothers’ sequence of novels and other works. ‘The Novels ...

The present book is a grateful acknowledgement of the contribution of D.H. Lawrence in the arena of literature during the twentieth century. A reno...

The Novels of E.M. Forster discusses the works of E.M. Forster in the context of ethical and aesthetic patterns particularly focusing on the fusion...

The present book provides a critical analysis of all the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway, a twentieth century American novelist who go...