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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

This book titled Pearls of Wisdom is a collection of selected adages, sublime messages, watchwords, lessons in life, proverbs and religious truths ...

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

Great Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally considered to be...

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

Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the emotions ...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a guide to the rules of good written British English including British English usage, pronunciation, and wr...

A great dramatist, literary critic, an eminent showman, intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre personality of the 2...

Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings o...

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