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The time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 a.Brad., describing a society divided into two classes, The subterranean workers, call...

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 ...

A Short History of the World, largely inspired by Wells’ earlier 1919 work The Outline of History, is a monumental account of the physical, spiritu...

Science Fiction (SF) suggests a hybrid form of novel, partaking of both ordinary fiction and elements of science. One of the unacknowledged pleasur...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 in the Strand Mag...

It is a pleasure to place in the hands of our readers the fourth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The essays included in thi...

King Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurer...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a ...

This is an attempt to focus on the prophetic vision of George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War perspective. In the course of discussion the author t...

This appreciation of Orwell’s novels has basically been intended to place the novelist in the humanistic perspective. The humanistic urges make inr...

Collection of (1) Robinson Crusoe: "Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gaine...

Modern English Literature: From Chaucer to The Present Day critically examines the famous authors of English Literature spread over a long period, ...

The present book applies the interpretative framework of Gricean Cooperative Principle (1975) to the analysis of conversations in which characters ...

Since its first publication in February 1897 Herford’s The Age of Wordsworth has remained and continues to remain a basic book on European Romantic...

The second edition of this distinguished and popular Companion introduces new chapters on the philosophy of biology: bioethics, genethics, and medi...

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical ...

Modern American literature is too vast and varied to be studied between the covers of a single book. Although limited by space, a sincere effort ha...

The book projects Ernest Hemingway as an artist with a broader vision than he is generally understood. This vision highlights the profound sympathy...

Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contem...

Collection of (1) Oliver Twist : The only token of identity left by Dicken's dying mother to Oliver Twist – born in the workhouse, and orphaned at ...

Hemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a book.' In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's most celebrat...