Edwin Arnold
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The Light of Asia recounts the Buddha's life, character and philosophy, and his quest for awakening. The rare charm and beauty of Edwin Arnold's poetry has the power to move us in a way that no prose rendering of the life of the Buddha can and we cannot help but admire the courage, determination and self-sacrifice of the young prince. First published in 1879, the book has become a classic and has since been published in many editions and several languages. This ...
The present work is a pioneering effort to highlight life and works of the choicest great English novelists. This work gives a vivid account of their life events and critique of their literary works by various learned commentators on them. Certainly this will be useful and informative for students, researchers and teachers besides the general readers.
This book on Mark Twain consists of thirteen articles namely-Mark Twain: An Overview; Realism, Romanticism and Politics in Mark Twain; Beneath the Veil: Clothing, Race and Gender in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson; Carnival in Mark Twain’s “Stirring Times in Austria†and “The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburgâ€; Through a Glass Eye, Darkly: The Skeptic Design of ‘Life on the Mississippi’; ‘A Difficult Case’: W.D. Howell’s Impression of Mark ...
Thomas Hardy needs no formal introduction. This book on him consists of seven articles, namely-Thomas Hardy: An Overview; Hardy and the Imagery of Place; Motion Sickness: Spectacle and Circulation in Thomas Hardy’s “On the Western Circuitâ€; Triangulated Passions: Love, Self-Love, and the Other in Thomas Hardy’s The Well Beloved; Three Hardy Flowers; Hardy’s “Tess†and “The Photographyâ€: Images to Die For; Two Different Ethics: Philosophy and ...
Daniel Defoe (b. 1990) is a renowned novelist in English. This book on Defoe contains ten articles, x-raying his literary genius. T he topics included herein are-Daniel Defoe: An Overview; Defoe and the Art of War; A Sermon by the “Queen of Whoresâ€; Modern Panegyrick and Defoe’s Dunciad: Robinson Crusoe as Narrative Theologian; Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel and Robinson Crusoe; Commercial Paper, Commerical Fiction: “The ...
George Orwell (b. 1903) is well known for his brilliant satires, novels, documentaries, essays and criticism. This book is intended to explore his life and literary works in pros and cons. The main topics included herein are-George Orwell: An Overview; Where he Wrote: Priodicals and the Essays of George Orwell; Power of Images/Images of Power in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four; Orwell, Animals and the East; The New Barbarians: Totalitarianism, Terror and ...
Novelist and short story writer, a central figure in the American Renaissance, Hawthorne took a dark view of human nature. This book contains seven articles viz. – Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Overview; Hawthorne and the Universal Reformers; Letters Turned to Gold: Hawthorne, Authorship and Slavery; The Adulteress in the Market-place: Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter; Domesticating Hawthorne: Home is for the Birds; The Marble Mother: Hawthorne’s Iconographies of ...
D.H. Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist was born in 1885. Here is this book we have compiled ten well researched articles authored by reputed scholars on Hardy. The main themes are-D.H. Lawrence: An Overview; D.H. Lawrence: Pleasure and Death; D.H. Lawrence’s World Vision of Cultural regeneration in Lady Chatterley’s Lover; The Religious Initiation of the Reader in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow; The Thermodynamics of Gender: Lawrence, ...
Conrad is a Polish-born English novelist and short-story writer, a dreamer, adventurer, and gentleman. This book consists of eight well-researched articles x-raying his life events and literary achievements. The main topics, included herein are – Joseph Conrad: An Overview; Testing for Truth: Joseph Conrad and the Ideology of the Examination; The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Lord Jim’; Contextualizing and Comprehending Joseph Conrad’s “The ...
English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, whose novels treat moral issues in the context of political settings. Greene is one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller. Adventure and suspense are constant elements in his novels and many of his books have been made into successful films. The main topics elaborately dealt in this book are-Graham Greene: An Overview; From Granite to Grass: Graham Greene, Travel ...
Jane Austen is the English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. The following chapters are included in this book highlighting her life and literary works. Jane Austen: an Overview; Jane Austen and the Riches of Embarrassment; Jane Austen and the Sin of Pride; The Sense and Sensibility of Betrayal: Discovering the Meaning of Treachery through Jane Austen; Closure and Disclosure: The Significance of ...
The Bhagavadgita forms a part of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, and consists of 700 verses. It is a dialogue between Arjuna, one of the five Pandavas, and Lord Krishna, who acts as his charioteer. While his armies are arraigned against the armies of the Kauravas, the adversaries of the Pandavas, he falters and asks Krishna how he could kill his own kith and kin and whether such a battle was worthwhile at all. Lord Krishna in this long dialogue gives him ...