English Literature

Penguin

The Republic (Penguin Classics)

Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. Dur..

Doaba House

The Rover: Regents Restoration Drama

AuthorAphra BehnBindingPaperbackPublicationDoaba HousePublication Year2017Book Language EnglishISBN 13 ..

The Scarlett Letter

This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her..

The Time Machine and Other Works (Wordsworth Class...

In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leade..

TheTaming of the Shrew (Wordsworth Classics)

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare’s..

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Things Fall Apart

A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire i..

Om

Three Men in a Boat

The book, 'Three men in a Boat’ revolves around three friends, J, Harris and George. On one ordinary day, the three friends gather at J’s house and spend some time smoking and talking about the lows in life. That’s when they come up with the idea of taking a boat trip up the river Thames. They belie..

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Till the Last Breath

When death is that close, will your heart skip a beat?Two patients are admitted to room no. 509. One is a brilliant nineteen-year-old medical student, suffering from an incurable, fatal disease. She counts every extra breath as a blessing. The other is a twenty-five-year-old drug addict whose organs..

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Wordsworth Editio...

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, ..

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Tragedy

AuthorW. Macneile DixonBindingHardbackPublicationDoaba HousePublication Year2014Book Language EnglishISBN 13 ..

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Train To Pakistan

It is the summer of 1947. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. Then, a local money-lender is murdered, and suspicion falls upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is in love with a Muslim girl. When a train arrive..

Worldview

Twelfth Night (Worldview Critical Editions)

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 fig..