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"; Through a Glass Eye, Darkly: The Skeptic Design Impression of Mark Twain; Literary 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.

Thomas Hardy needs no formal introduction. This book 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 Circuit"; Triangulated Passions: Love, Self-love, and the Other in Thomas Hardy's The Well Beloved; Three Hardy Flowers; Hardy's "Tess" and "The Photograph": Images t Fie For; Two Different Ethics: Philosophy and Literature; etc.

The endeavour will prove highly useful and informative to one and all.

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'; Conceptualizing and Comprehending Joseph Conrad's "The Return"; Colonizers, Cannibals and the Horron of Good Intentions in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'; Joseph Conrad's "Sudden Holes" in Time: The Epistemology of Temporality; Politics, Modernity and Domesticity: the Gothicism of Conrad's the Secret Agent; "Signifying Nothing": Conrad's Idiots and the Anxiety of Modernism; etc.

Novelist and short story writer, a central figure in the American Renaissance, Hawthorne took a dark view of human nature.

The book contains seven articles viz.- Nathaniel Hawthorne; An Overview; Hawthorne and the universal Reformers; Letter Turned to Gold: Hawthorne, Authorship and Slavery; The Adulteress in the Market-place: hawthorn and the Scarlet Letter; Domesticating Hawthorne: Home is for the Birds; The Marble Mother: Hawthorne's Iconographies of the Feminine; Hawthorne' "Waking Reality"; etc.

This book will equally benefit the teachers and students.