English Literature

This critical edition of the Mahabharata offers excerpts from the Sabha Parva and Udyoga Parva, translated by K M Ganguli. A detailed introduction opens important scholarly questions that are relevant to the excerpts. Essays and selections from some crucial academic research of scholars like Radhavallabh Tripathi, Sheldon Pollock, Alf Hiltebeitel,...

   

      Details: Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream peace, of how women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceieved when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War. Though in modern times, this is...

   

2 Details: 'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of...

  Binding: Single Issue Magazine Number Of Pages: 234 Release Date: 15-08-2023 Details: This edition, especially designed for undergraduate students of English Literature, offers and expansive introduction to Greek tragedy abd Antigone, along with the detialed annotated commentary on the play. It also comprises foundational essays on Antigone, followed by...

Pride and Prejudice, 'my own darling child' of Jane Austen has retianed its popularity with the reading public over the years. The novel examines the paradigm of courtship romance in the context of the social changes that overtook England following the French Revolution. Elizabeth's Bennet's with and independence of mind...

    F Number Of Pages: 248 Release Date: 19-10-2016 Details: On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of...

     

  Binding: Paperback Release Date: 01-12-2021 EAN: 9789382267591 Package Dimensions: 5.9 x 2.4 x 0.8 inches Languages: English

   

  Binding: Perfect Paperback Number Of Pages: 316 EAN: 9788196231583 Languages: English

This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night has been designed with the Indian undergraduate student in mind. The text is accompanied by full, clear notes, so that the student can easily make sense of the play. There is a comprehensive Introduction covering the play's title, date and sources, the figure of...

Hailed as a Shakespearean play, written a few centuries before shakespeare, Sudraka's Mrichchhakatika is one of the most significant Sanskrit dramas for more than a few reasons. Set in the ancient city of Ujjayani, Mrichchhakatika is "rife with romance, comedy, intrigue and a political subplot detailing the overthrow of the...

Placing Indian writing in a critical setting, through discussions in Introductions and short textual analyses, this book makes available to the reader a few texts ( short stories and poems) chosen for thier representation. 

  Details: This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, style and language as well asquestions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.It is the perfect edition for students of theatre...

  Details: The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name.Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has...

  Details: Product Description REVIEWS FROM HARDBACK EDITION: 'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past...The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender...

This anthology builds upon a set of primary texts—Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” and poems by Walt Whitman and Sherman Alexie. The overarching objective is to organize and explicate the wide corpus of writings that have been authored within the cultures of the United States of America. The...

  Details: Andha Yug by Dharamveer Bharti is a seminal play set during the final day of the Mahabharata war. It explores themes of violence, moral dilemmas, and ethical redemption. Written shortly after India's partition, this powerful narrative delves into the impact of war on society. Available in both Hindi...

    Details: One of the great reference books of the century is now revised and updated. It contains 60 new entries on contemporary writers, from Martin Amis and Bruce Chatwin, to Salman Rushdie and Gore Vidal. Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, this book offers the most complete reference guide to...

     

   

  Details: A major new oral history from the Pulitzer Prize-winner, dealing with the universal experience of death. At the age of 88, Studs Terkel has turned to the ultimate human experience, that of death and t ... EAN: 9781565846920 Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches Languages: English

    Details: Evil is festering in Trolltooth Pass. The Necromancer Zharradan Marr is close to stealing the secrets of Elven magic, which will make him invincible. Nothing could then prevent him and his legions of Chaos from taking over the world of Allansia But what does the Creature of...

  into orbit with Steve Jackson's classic gamebook set in the outer reaches of space Sucked through the nightmare of the Seltsian Void, the starship Traveller emerges at the other side of the black hole into an unknown universe. YOU are the captain of the Traveller and her fate depends...

   We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that’s wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of—among other things—capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. But, in this flood of publishing...

   

    Details: The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations. Comprehensive and balanced, A Brief History of...

  Details: The twenty-first century is witnessing a resurgence and globalization of religion. Around the world, religion has become an increasingly more important and pervasive force in personal and public life, and faith and politics now play a powerful role in international affairs. Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary...

    From the slasher icons of Jason, Freddy and Leatherface to the slick horror of Alien, Scream, and Ring, to the cult classics of Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy, this book analyzes the definitive works (and the most influential directors) of the genre over the last 50 years.  ...

   

   

  Details: Dorit Bar-On develops and defends a novel view of avowals and self-knowledge. Drawing on resources from the philosophy of language, the theory of action, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, she offers original and systematic answers to many long-standing questions concerning our ability to know our own minds....

   Think you know Hollywood movies? Think again!No matter how many movies you've seen, no matter how many trivia contests you've won, this book is sure to have some surprises for you.The fifty flicks featured here aren't playing at the local Google-Plex or renting at your video store. These films...

  Brand: Pluto Press Binding: Paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 216 Release Date: 20-06-2001 EAN: 9780745315980 Languages: English