English Literature

  Details: A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenomena and offers fresh...

    Details: The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Ranging widely across the radical tradition of 20th-century thought and culture that...

  Details: The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams’ inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers into the...

    Details: Product Description This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.Review 'The strength of this...

   

      Details: This volume provides an introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and post-colonial discourses. It examines: the ideologies and history of colonialism; the relationship of colonial discourse to literature; challenges to colonialism, surveying anticolonial discourses and recent developments in post-colonial theories and...

   

     

    In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of...

   

   

    Details: Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Told through stories of imagination...

     

     

   

      Details: 🔥A Haunting Tale of Ideals, Revolution, and the Human SoulThe Devils is one of Dostoevsky’s most powerful and controversial novels, inspired by a real-life political assassination. It examines how ideals, when corrupted, can lead to terror. At the heart of the story is a philosophical conflict...

        Details: Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are...

   

      Details: There is nothing stronger than those two: Patience and Time. The year was 1805. Napoleon’s conquest of western Europe was causing anxiety among the Russians. In alliance with the Austrian empire, the Russian troops were trying to resist Napoleon’s onslaught. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy...

      Details: 📚 Embark on an Epic Journey Through the Afterlife with Dante’s Timeless MasterpieceStep into one of the greatest literary adventures ever written with The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. This unabridged edition from The Originals series faithfully presents Dante’s visionary journey through the realms of Hell...

    Details: “Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by Industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.” Written by English dramatist, Ben Jonson, Volpone, the 17th-century Renaissance drama is a sharp...

    Details: "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne masterpiece, the Scarlet letter, set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay colony, is the tale of Hester Prynne ‘shame’ following the birth of a child whose father remains unidentified for the larger part of the...

        Details: The War of the Worlds, a science fiction masterpiece by H.G. Wells, immerses readers in a gripping tale of alien invasion. Set in Victorian England, the novel follows the sudden and brutal arrival of Martians, whose advanced technology and ruthless tactics bring humanity to the...

        Details: In the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck escapes from the clutches of his abusive drunk father ‘pap’, and the ‘sivilizing’ guardian widow Douglas. After faking his own death in pursuit of freedom, during one of his travels,...

  Details: "Occasionally I told astrologers to select my worst periods, according to planetary indications, and I would still accomplish whatever task I set myself. It is true that my success at such times has been accompanied by extraordinary difficulties. But my conviction has always been justified: faith in the...

        Details: ✨ Uncover the Origins of Art, Myth, and Philosophy with Nietzsche’s First Great WorkDive into Friedrich Nietzsche’s groundbreaking philosophical exploration with The Birth of Tragedy, presented here in an unabridged, beautifully crafted edition from The Originals series.In this foundational work, Nietzsche examines the profound impact...

     The Selected Works Of Kahlil Gibran presents the Lebanese-American author, poet and philosopher, Kahlil Gibran’s 13 most iconic works—philosophical reflections and essays, stories and parables, poems in prose and verse and more. His perennial classic, The Prophet (1923), is an exploration of life and the human condition through...

    Details: So how could he be a god if he is not in possession of beautiful and good things?The six dialogues of Athenian philosopher Plato featured in this book—Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo and Symposium—form the bulk of his thoughts on the eternal questions of human existence. They...

      Details: "But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. Published in 1889, three men in a Boat is the most widely acclaimed novel by English author Jerome K. Jerome. Jerome...

    Details: The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell, published in 1930, is a philosophical exploration o what makes life worth living. Drawing from his own experiences and observations, Russell offers practical advice on achieving happiness and overcoming the causes of unhappiness. The book addresses various aspects of life,...

      Details: "You have power over your mindset outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength. Meditations, written by the Roman emperor Marcus br>Aurelius (ad 161-180), is the common name for a series of personal notes that the emperor wrote to himself, probably without the intention to...

        Details: 💖 Jane Austen’s Persuasion – A Heartfelt Journey Through Time and EmotionStep into the elegant world of Regency England with Persuasion, Jane Austen’s final completed novel and one of her most emotionally resonant works. This unabridged edition from The Originals Classic collection captures the subtlety,...

     

  Brand: OM BOOKS INTERNATIONAL Features: Comes with secure Packaging Easy to Read Text This product will be an excellent pick for you Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 120 Release Date: 01-01-2016 Details: ✨ Discover Why The Little Prince Remains a Worldwide TreasureThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is...

      Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 208 Release Date: 01-12-2006 Details: The Grip of Change is the English translation of Pazhaiyana Kazhithalum, the first full-length novel by P. Sivakami, an important Tamil writer. This translation also features Asiriyar Kurippu, the sequel in which Sivakami revisits her work. The...

      Details: A searing memoir of the life of a sensitive and intelligent Dalit youth in independent India. It tells us how he overcame contempt, humilitation and violence to gain an education and join the slowly growing ranks of Dalit intellectuals in India  

  Details: This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology...

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      Details: This is a translation of a historically important Bengali novel.Published in 1882, Chatterji's Anandamath helped create the atmosphere and the symbolism for the nationalist movement leading to Indian independence in 1947. It contains the famous hymn Vande Mataram ("I revere the Mother"), which has become India's...

  Details: “You are a good young man,” she said. “But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.” British novelist George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans) painted a rich and vivid portrait of a small 19th-century town in her acclaimed novel, Middlemarch. Published in eight parts...

   

    Color: White Edition: Main Features: FABER & FABER It is durable and long lasting It ensures you get the best usage for a longer period Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 320 Release Date: 21-08-2000 model number: 170119 Part Number: 2342250 Details: 'A cult figure.' Guardian'A dark and brilliant...

  Details: 'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John Carey In his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of...

      Number Of Pages: 448 Release Date: 04-02-2010 Details: Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. EAN: 9780099542254 Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x...

  Brand: Penguin Edition: 2012 Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 400 Release Date: 29-08-2012 Details: Raag Darbari s plot is set in Shivpalganj, which is a small village located in Uttar Pradesh. This village appears to be no different from other villages that span the country. The narrator of this...