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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...

Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. He is best known for his philosophical novels set i...

A defence of poetry and other essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley's argume...

This book offers provocative new readings of animal narratives that have changed the way we think about animals, writing and postcoloniality. It is...

Studies in Fiction deals with George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Thomas Love Peacock, Anita Desai, Jerome David Salinger, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens...

John Keats was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He belonged to 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...

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 Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architectural studies. His characters are primitive a...

Collection of (1) The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and architec...

Charles Dickens (1812--1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is gen...

The Primer of Greek Literature, originally published in 1877, is, till date, the finest introduction to the literary world of the Greeks. The book ...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy's finest novel. This is ...

Expanding from her path-breaking work in Unspeakable Truths, Priscilla Hayner focuses on a new challenge in The Peacemaker’s Paradox: the age-old p...

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the peak of sophistica...

The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakes...

What is the fate of two unknowingly identical boys who exchange their lives? The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain is a historical satire set in ...

It is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth century. It...

Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered among the...

Jude the Obscure is a haunting love story and a raging indictment of Victorian society. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel is a rich ...

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...