Daniel Defoe (b. 1660) is a renowned novelist in English. This book on Defoe contains ten articles, x-raying his literary genius. The topics included herein are - Daniel Defoe: An Overview; Defoe and the Art of War; A Sermon by the "Queen of Whores:; Modern Panegyrick and Defoe's Dunciad: Robinson Crusoe as Narrative Theologian; Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel and Robinson Crusoe; Commercial Paper, Commercial Fiction: 'The Complete English Tradesman' and Defoe's Reluctant Novels; Inevitable Politics: Rulership and Identity in Robinson and Righting Moll Flanders; etc.

This book will prove informative and useful for the teachers and students.

D.H. Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist was born in 1885. Here in 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, Science and Sexism; The Vampire Lust in D.H. Lawrence; D.H. Lawrence's "Dark Page": Narrative Primitive in 'Women in Love' and 'The Plumed Serpent'; Staging the Gaze in D.H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love'; The Myth of the Fall in 'Women in Love'; Gender and Language in 'Sons and Lovers'; etc. This book will equally benefit the teachers and students.

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 Hadleyburg"; Though a Glass Eye, Darkly: The Skeptic Design of 'Life on the Mississippi'; 'A Difficult Case': W.D. Howell's Impression of Mark Twain; Literacy Continuity in Sandra Cisneros's 'The House on Mango Street'; Seven Recent Commentaries on Mark Twain; Gloom and Doom in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, from Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur; What's Funny about Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer's Games of Death; Huck the Thief; Mark Twain's Cross-Dressing Oeuvre; etc.

This book gives a vivid account of his life events and literary achievements alongwith critical notes by competent scholars.

Definitely this will serve the purpose of students and teachers alike.

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 Conversation in Jane Austen's 'The Watsons'; The Labor of the Leisured in Emma: Class, Manners and Austen; Jane Austen's Rejection of Rousseau: A Novelistic and Feminist Initiation; Society and the Superfluous Female: Jane Austen's Treatment of Widowhood; "Improper and Dangerous Distinctions": Female Relations and Erotic Domination in 'Emma'; etc.

This will prove an ideal reference work for students and teachers alike.