Browsing English by Subject "English literature"

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    • Areopagitica 

      Milton, John (Cambridge University Press, 1918)
      An edition based upon Sir Richard Jebb's lectures at Cambridge in 1872, with extensive notes and commentaries on this famous work. Milton's famous defence of freedom of speech. It was a protest against Parliament's ordinance ...

    • Arms and the man 

      Shaw, George Bernard (The electronic classic series, 2002)
      This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative ...

    • A house for Mr. Biswas 

      Naipaul, V. S. (Vintage, 2001)
      The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. In his ...

    • Indian English Literature 

      Kumar, Gajendra (Sarup and Sons, 2001)
      Indian English literature: a new perspective is a critical venture to secrutinize the creative urge and narrative art of Indian writers and poets. The book is carved out in its new get up by assimilating twenty papers ...

    • An introduction to literature, criticism and theory 

      Bannett, Andrew; Nicholas, Royle (Pearson Education, 2004)
      Fresh, original and compelling, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies.Starting at ‘the beginning’ and concluding with ‘the end’, the book covers topics that range ...

    • Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 16, Chapter 4) 

      Turgenev, Ivan (Gale, 2003)
      The generation gap between the fathers and sons in the story neatly symbolized the current political debates between the older reactionaries and the younger radicals. Bazarov is a nihilist who scorns the purposelessness ...

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature 

      Greenblatt, Stephen; Abrams, M. H. (W • W • Norton & Company, 2006)
      The Eight Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by more than 8 million ...

    • The Pilgrim's Progress 

      Bunyan, John (Grand Rapids, 1853)
      Often rated as important as the Bible as a Christian document, this famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against ...

    • The tragical history of Dr Faustus 

      Marlowe, Christopher (The electronic classic series, 1998)
      Christopher Marlowe was an English poet, dramatist and translator in the Elizabethan period. Faust is the famous story of a man selling his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level man's decay from ...

    • Walt Whitman's "song of myself ": a mosaic of interpretations 

      Miller, Edwin Haviland (University of lowa press, 1989)
      Song of Myself by Walt Whitman is one of the must read Walt Whitman poems. There were a few editions of Song of Myself, as Whitman revised this poem throughout his lifetime.