English Literature

This edition of The Book of Job provides a fully annotated text in the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible. The King James Version (KJV) is included for comparison and to enable the modern reader to fully appreciate the poetical quality that is often lost in the NIV. Joban...

This edition of Readings in Classical Literature contains the shorter prescribed texts for the European Classical Literature paper for the students of English in the Delhi University CBCS Programme. It includes Horace's Satires and Epistles Book 1, Satire 4 translated by Naill Rudd Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses translated and with...

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...

Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: A Primer is a seminal collection that brings together personal narratives, critical essays, poetry, and fiction to explore the multifaceted dimensions of disability in literature and culture. The opening section sets the stage with foundational essays that unpack the evolving terrain of disability studies. The...

Rhinoceros is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial...

This anthology offers a curated collection of short stories, poetry, and life narratives designed for the Women’s Writing paper in the English (Hons.) curriculum under the National Education Policy (NEP) for undergraduate students. The poetry section features the works of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Eunice de Souza, while the...

This elegantly written book offers an unexpected and unprecedented account of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment—both her own view of the world and the world’s view of the blind. “I hope...

About the Author Henrik Ibsen was born at Skien in Norway in 1828. He was one of the earliest writers to dramatise the individual's alienation from society. Although never fully appreciated during his lifetime, he has since come to be recognised as one of the greatest dramatists and the 'Father...

According to Raymond Williams Modern European drama is " a record of difficulty and struggle, a major creative achievement of the great periods of dramatic history , a major creative achievement of our own civilization  which gives us a continuing understanding , imagination and courage . The worlds of naturalism...

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 and literature.In...

Brit Kotwal breaks his legs eleven times before he is five years old. His teeth crumble and chip if he tries to bite into anything. It was his sister Dolly’s idea to call him Brit, short for brittle, because of his bones. Besides, Parsees don’t really like long first-names, and...

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 two children...

The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran...

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in LiteratureLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times'Gurnah is a master storyteller' Financial Times_______________On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island...

Toni Morrision's Pultizer -winning 1987 novel, beloved ,is in many ways an iconic work of African -american literature  as much as it is within the canon of what comprises  literature in English today .A widely read ,studied ,critiqued, and analyzed text, this magical  realist narrative incorporates many themes that Morrision...

Modern Indian Writing Translation is being introducing as a self contsined paper for the first time in the university of delhi .The present anthology , probably the first multilingual collection in the undergraduate course ,goes well beyond the ambit of the syllabus .

This Worldview Critical edition of Kate Chopin's 1899 novel The Awakening presents the complte , unabridged ,annotated  text to its readers .The introduction to the volume placs the text in the various contexts of its production ,reception and circulation  

Angaliyat tells the story of oppression and exclusion by transforming the vanquished into the victor, by turning the periphery into the core. The portrayal of Methi and Kanku as 'pure' women challenges the age-old perceptions of higher castes which denigrate the practice of remarriage among 'backward' communities. The stepchild who...

Clear Light Of Day is a novel that focuses on misunderstandings in a family, the ability to forgive, and the value of love. This book is heart touching, engaging, and semi-autobiographical in nature. Summary Of The Book Clear Light Of Day, originally published in 1980, focuses on the importance of...

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by...

This edition  is aimed at both the  English with marginal glosses of all the unfamiliar words. Substantial explanatory notes on the facing page also supply full background information on each of the social groups and occupations represented in Chaucer's gallery of characters. The Introduction covers Chaucer's life and experience inside...

In the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Chaucer provides us with the fascinating picture of a medieval conman who habitually profits from the faith of the simple villagers. But his attempt to impress a more educated audience fails disastrously. The Pardoner is motivated not only by greed but by a desire...

This edition of Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is aimed at both the first time reader of Chaucer's Middle English with marginal glosses of all the unfamiliar words. Substantial explanatory notes on the facing page also supply full background information on each of the social groups and occupations...

This critical edition of the play provides a fully annotated B text version(1616) of Dr. Faustus with additional primary sources and background material. It caters to the requirement of the students and scholars who are studying the play in relation to its broader philosophical, theoretical, literary and historical context. It...

This edition of the vicar Wakefield present the complete and unabridged text to its readers . It has an introduction that places the works in the various contexts of its production that places the various contexts of its production , circulation  and reception .

This edition of The Rape of the Lock provides a fully annotated text of the poem in its final five-canto version. The original two-canto version is included for comparison, as well as several short poems and extracts from Pope's other works illustrating his attitudes to women, his views on poetic...

Aphra Behn (1640-1689), a bold and courageous voice in the literature of the Restoration period, has been in the focus of academic critical attention in the last two decades. As a result of this growing interest in her writing among scholars, Aphra Behn has come to be recognized not merely...

This edition of Paradise lost Book1 adopts a modern spelling version of the 1674text and add full annotations in order to make Milton's poem easily accessible to the student  Paradise Lost Book I is set almost at the beginning of time , before human beings were created . How then...

This Edition with an exhaustive introduction and notes , foregrounds the political and literary contexts of the first few decades of the eighteenth centaury . Tracing the pre text ,it locates swift's masterpiece amongst  the amorphous prose fiction and partisan wring of the turbulent prose fiction and partisan writing of...

This edition positions the play in the socio-cultural context of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Macbeth is analysed here in terms of the changing political scenario that influenced attitudes and perspectives of the time. The reader will find this book useful for its range of perspectives that are...

  Brand: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Edition: 2 Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 99 Release Date: 07-05-2008 Details: This beautiful book introduces us to the fascinating world of trees. Each double page spread describes the forms, habits, and quirks of more than forty trees commonly found in India, using colour illustrations...

Author: NIKHIL DEVASAR, S. B. DUTTA, SANTANU SARKAR (Editor) Edition: First Edition Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 200 Release Date: 01-12-2012 Details: A ground-breaking, comprehensive, holistic birdwatching guide for the Doon Valley, Mussoorie Hills, Rajaji N.P. and the entire region, from the Terai wetlands of Jhilmil Jheel and Asan Barrage...

  Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers   Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 144 Release Date: 10-07-2018 Details: “Think of the vicious wit of Virginia Woolf, laced with the tender melancholia of Hélène Cixous, spiked with the subtle eroticism of Anaïs Nin.”— Somak Ghoshal, Livemint“Her writing is both wry...

  Brand: Penguin Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 160 Release Date: 22-07-2019 Details: PRAISE FOR:"It was perhaps in the rancorous tumult of the breaking and making of nations that Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's word and vision was lost." - Rafia Zakaria Dawn"You can feel Hossain's anger... and her scathing criticism of...

  Edition: Edition, New Title ed. Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 258 Release Date: 05-04-2020 Details: jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her family. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young jeumon wonders how she should define herself. Is she Assamese, like...

    Color: Blue Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 132 Release Date: 15-10-2013 model number: FLIBD9789381017708 Part Number: FLIBD9789381017708 Details: Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out. But few know that a month after the author wrote "Umrao Jaan...

  Brand: VIKING Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 192 Release Date: 15-04-2014 Part Number: FLAIBD9789381017647 Details: It has been ten years since Ram’s return from fallen Lanka. Ayodhya is shining. Ayodhya is prosperous. But darkness lurks at the heart of the victorious regime. A pointed question piques a young journalist's...

  Brand: Penguin Color: Blue Edition: Edition Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 428 Release Date: 21-04-2015 Details: A lively collection of stories, essays, and poems by writers of South Asian descent living in North America. 'Call Me Confused, Please' requests one of the stories in this insightful and engaging collection...

Author: Kiran Nirvan Brand: Srishti Publishers & Distributors Edition: First Edition Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 208 Release Date: 12-06-2023 Details: Three young medical college students find a poor rickshaw puller with a raw wound in the middle of the road. Little did they know, they were on the verge...

Author: Nighat Gandhi Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers Edition: Edition, New Title ed. Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 152 Release Date: 25-03-2019 Details: Praise for: “a clear-eyed view of life’s innate contradictions” — mita Ghose, the Hindu “Allahabad may just have found her Chekov” — Irwin Allan Sealy...

Author: M Padmanabhan Brand: Penguin Random House Binding: hardcover Release Date: 01-12-2012 Details: About the Book: Three Virgins and Other Stories A vampire visits New Delhi, a space traveller returns to her ancestral home, a character from an ancient epic is transported into the future. To each story Padmanabhan brings...

Author: Kondapalli Koteswaramma   Edition: Edition Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 160 Release Date: 24-08-2015 Details: 'A searing memoir of a political life that took the Telugu literary world by storm.Well-known as the widow of Kondapalli Seetharamaiah (KS), founder of the Maoist movement in Andhra Pradesh, Koteswaramma’s life spans a...

Author: Choden, Kunzang Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers Edition: Edition Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 150 Release Date: 01-12-2009 Details: These deceptively simple stories uncover both the complexity and irony of women's lives in Bhutan today. They show how ordinary lives, choices and experiences are both remarkable and...

Author: Collins, Michael Brand: Cambridge University Press Edition: Cambridge Univ PR ed. Binding: hardcover Format: Import Number Of Pages: 120 Release Date: 14-09-1995 Part Number: 6 tables Details: This accessible study investigates the role of banks in the finance of British industry, an issue which has long been the subject...

Author: Sahba Husain Brand: Penguin Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 288 Release Date: 20-11-2019 Part Number: 9789385932878 Details: In this personal and passionate account, activist and researcher Sahba Husain documents her deeply engaged and empathetic involvement with the politicised terrain of Kashmir. As she meets people that she speaks with...

Author: Parvati Sharma Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 220 Release Date: 25-08-2014 Part Number: FLAIBD9789383074822 Details: All Mrinalini Singh wants, she has. A loving husband, a competent cook, the vague hope of a book deal one day. But when her old roommate Jahanara...

Author: Baird, Forrest E.Brand: PearsonEdition: 4Binding: paperbackNumber Of Pages: 1217Release Date: 24-07-2002EAN: 9780130485618Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.0 x 1.8 inchesLanguages: English