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Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States ...

During its early history, America was a group of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Its literary tradition, th...

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

“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...

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...

Saul Bellow’s writing exhibited the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of Western culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and...

A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer—can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but, of course, in a...

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...

It was September 28, 2004 when the world of literature was stunned to have lost its versatile genius, a pioneer of Indian English fiction, Mulk Raj...

The Volume includes discussions on the American tradition of poetry as reflected in and enriched by the poetry of Robert Frost; then moving through...

Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth and nineteenth century American consciousness, tel...

The Ambassadors, published in 1903, is considered by theauthor himself to be his most 'perfect' work of art. In this novel, with much humour and de...

Since its publication in 1942, C.S. Lewis’s A Preface to Paradise Lost has remained and continues to remain an indispensable introductory book for ...

Modernism (The New Critical Idiom) analyses and discusses one of the most important literary movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Thi...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

The book is a Companion in the figure of a Guide (something like: “Everman I will go with thee and be thy guide/ in thy most need to go by thy side...

This study endeavours to trace out some of the missing dimensions of Ernest Hemingway’s writings, and the search brings this author to Spain, not t...

In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unf...

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 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway chronicles the temperaments and lifestyles of young, hard-drinking English and American expatriates on an ex...

The present book is an in-depth critical study of the modern American classic, Ernest Hemingway’s the old man and the sea, which won the Pulitzer P...

There is no poet in English Literature like Milton : so firm in religious conviction, so fierce in politics, so high in poetic flight, so grand in ...