English Literature

Book Summary of The Novels Of Mulk Raj Anand : A Critical Study Mulk Raj Anand is one of the best known novelists in English in India. Translated i...

The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand: A New Critical Spectrum includes twelve insightful essays which not only shed new light on the old classics like Unto...

Mulk Raj Anand, the doyen of Indian English fiction, whose writing career spanned nearly four decades, has carved out a permanent niche in the lite...

Dr. Mulk Raj Anand, through his rare prolificity, bold experimentation and aesthetic sensibility, has made immense contribution to Indian as well a...

R.K. Narayan is ranked among the greatest novelists of the world and certainly he is a great literary figure of English in India in 20th century. A...

Postmodernism and Afro-American literary discourse are closely entwined in the fiction of Toni Morrison, argue the writers in this pioneering book....

The Novels of William Golding seeks to explore both the structures of Golding’s novels in some detail and their meanings in a sufficiently sustaine...

The Old Drama and the New (1923) is a major contribution of Archer’s matured scholarship. The book contains “with slight additions and retrenchment...

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952, underlined...

This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian...

A classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the account o...

Key Features Updated historical information presents the findings of recent scholarship. Revised prose style uses more contemporary, accessible lan...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after heavy ed...

The Pilgrim’s Progress, a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan, is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English l...

Every age has its definitive moments of literature. In the twentieth century, the staging of The Waiting for Godot was one such milestone. The mass...

The present book, The Plays of Eugene O’Neill : A Critical Study, is a full-length study of Eugene O’Neill’s major plays. O’Neil, who was awarded t...

This book is based on the myths in the plays of Girish Karnad. The four major plays Hayavadana, Yayati, Nagamandala and The Fire and the Rain have ...

An established literary giant of all times, T.S. Eliot has attracted immense amount of critical attention. This book discusses the plays of T.S. El...

Besides thirty-seven plays, two volumes of poetry and over 150 sonnets are also attributed to Shakespeare. The volumes of narrative poems that Shak...

Nissim Ezekiel is one of those few men of letters who become legends in their life-time. A playwright of credentials, a critic of encyclopaedic ran...

A.K. Ramanujan represents the quintessential Indian English poet engaged in a relentless quest for self in the welter of tradition and contemporary...

The poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (fourth revised and enlarged edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis ...

The book presents some of the unexplored facts about Keats’ poetry. Keats has been an important poet of romanticism. The poetic works of John Keats...