A world without books is hard to imagine. From childhood onwards man is greatly influenced by books. Blessed are the men who can pen down their thoughts. Shakespeare, Dryden, Pope, Vikram Seth and many more, all of these have influenced us in one way or the other. This book is dedicated to these great men and women of letters. This book covers writers from various cultures and perspectives who influenced the shape of our present world.

This book is a collection of some of the most powerful and impressive words in English Language. These words would enrich your conversation skills and would help you fetch the much-coveted echelons of success that might presently transcend your imagination.

For achieving the lofty goal, you must develop an intense curiosity in different words, which are nothing but small live creatures full of energy and power. Do not delay in finding their meanings and practicing their usage. This is the first step towards success.

Every word that you will learn would make your personality more and more impressive. Soon you would be in the 'headlines of the success stories'.

The present collection of fourteen essays focuses on Indian English Literature. A writer's essays published in the periodical press suffer from a certain ephemerality which is perhaps rather inescapable. The fate of those that appear in edited volumes, though slightly better, is not much different. Easy accessibility is facilitated when all these are garnered and brought out as an independent volume. It is this idea which has promoted the publication of this book. The author indulges the hope that reflective men of his pursuit will find this book not altogether unworthy of their attention and will welcome it with the same affection and enthusiasm that they displayed in regard to his earlier literary labours.

The book is a maiden study of its kind since it studies Kenneth Burke's Literary Theory on the basis of the principle of binarism. Binarism is oppositional thinking at the conceptual, perceptual, sociological, textual, religious, psychological and at other levels. The author very distinctly demonstrates how these binary formations form the crux of the whole of Burke's work the study is also significant from the point of view that it relates Kenneth Burke's Literary theory with New Criticism on one hand and Structuralism and Deconstruction on the other. The book is the study of a contemporary critical tradition as well.