James Joyce

Thus Joyce wrote to his brother, and at the early age of twenty-five he completed Dubliners - a sequence of highly detailed episodes depicting middle-class Cath...

F Scott Fitzgerald

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the traditio...

William Shakespeare

King Lear is, in its picture of the tragic effect of human weakness and human cruelty, the most overpowering of the works of Shakespeare. It was written about 1...

Rudyard Kipling

'He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her rail features grew just so and his tall aunt, the Ostrich, spanked him with her hard, hard claw. ‘The en...

P.G. Wodehouse

Typical. Just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again... There's young Bingo L...

Mark Twain

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europ...

Aditi Mukherjee

One simply cannot imagine Emperor Aurangzeb- most acclaimed as a ruthless bigot, to be in love. The Last Mughal Warrior in Love is Emperor Aurangzeb’s sto...

William Shakespeare

Background information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and the text accompany his play about unrequited love and mistaken identity

Soorina Desai

"Life perhaps has no story to tell. This book is about birth, a search for an identity, intense emotion, illusion, disillusion, acceptence, death and a per...

Rabindranath Tagore

One of our most enduring inspirational works, The Post Office returns to North America with this handsomely illustrated new edition, offering hope and healing f...

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary deals with themes of love, marital discord, medical mistakes and sexuality. Emma Bovary is deluded by literature. Her drama is the gap between des...

Alexandre Dumas

"First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever wr...