English Books for IAS Exam

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1. Shakespeare and Women by Phyllis Rackin Buy Now
2. Shakespeare Late Work by Raphael Lyne Buy Now
3. Shakespeare Romances by Harold Bloom Buy Now
4. Shakespeare’s Comedies by Bertrand Evans Buy Now
5. Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories, Comedies and Romances by Victor L. Cahn Buy Now

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1. John Donne by Frank Kermode Buy Now
2. The Poetry of John Donne: A Study In Explication by Doniphan Louthan Buy Now
3. John Donne: A Collection of Critical Essays by Helen Gardener
4. Donne’s Imagery: A Study In Creative Sources by Milton Allan Rugoff Gender and Sacred Self In John Donne by Elizabeth M.A. Hodgson
5. John Donne’s Articulations Of The Feminine by H.L Meakin Buy Now
6. Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne by Brent Nelson Buy Now
7. The Dogmatic and Mystic Theology of John Donne by Itrat Husain

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1. John Milton’s Paradise Lost by Harold Bloom Buy Now
2. Beautiful Sublime: The Making Of Paradise Lost by Leslie E. Moore Buy Now
3. Milton’s Adam and Eve: Fallible Perfection by George Musacchio Buy Now
4. Imperfect Sense: The Predicament Of Milton’s Irony by Victoria Silver Buy Now
5. Arenas Of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind by Kristin Pruitt Mc Colgan, Charles W. Durgam
6. Milton and Culture of Violence by Michael Lieb Buy Now
7. Milton and Isaiah: A Journey through the Drama of Salvation in Paradise Lost by Youngwon Park Buy Now

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1. William Wordsworth, A Poetic Life by John L. Mahoney Buy Now
2. Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print by Julia S. Carlson Buy Now
3. Wordsworth in his Major Lyrics: The Art And Psychology of Self- Representation by Leon Waldoff Buy Now
4. Wordsworth and the Motions of the Mind by G.K. Thomas
5. The Romantic Dream: Wordsworth and the Poetic of the Unconscious by Douglas B. Wilson Buy Now
6. Wordsworth’s “The Mad Mother”: The Poetics and Politics of Identification
7. Guilty Pleasures: William Wordsworth’s Poetry of Psychoanalysis by Richard D McGhee Buy Now
8. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest D Selincourt, Chester L. Shaver Buy Now

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1. Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by Hallam Tennyson Buy Now
2. A Tennyson Handbook by George O. Marshall Junior Buy Now
3. Finding the Modern Frames in Tennyson’s Final Classical Poems by A.A. Markeley
4. Classical Echoes in Tennyson by Wilfred P. Mustard Buy Now

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1. Henrik Ibsen by Harold Bloom Buy Now
2. Ibsen: the Dramaturgy of Fear by Michael Sturman Buy Now
3. Archetype, Architecture and the Literature by Bettina L. Knapp
4. The Apocalyptic Ibsen: When We Dead Awaken by Elinor Fuchs

• Gulliver's Travels. Buy Now

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1. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels edited by Paul Turner
2. The Mind And Art Of Jonathan Swift by Ricardo Quintana
3. Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction by Christene Rees
4. Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope, Gay by John Richardson Buy Now
5. More Real Than Reality: The Fantastic In Irish Literature And the Arts by Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha Buy Now

• Pride and Prejudice. Buy Now

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1. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Pride and Prejudice by Elliot Rubinstein
2. Interpretations: Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice by Harold Bloom Buy Now

• Tom Jones. Buy Now

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1. Interpretations: Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones by Harold Bloom
2. Trials and the Shaping of Identity in Tom Jones by John E Loftis
3. Rebellion Redux: Figuring Whig History in ‘Tom Jones’
4. The Embodiment of Characters: The Representations of Physical Experience on Stage and In Print by Jones Deritter
5. A Henry Fielding Companion by Martin C. Battestin Buy Now

• Hard Times. Buy Now

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1. Charles Dickens Hard Times by Harold Bloom Buy Now
2. Student Companion To Charles Dickens by Ruth Glancy Buy Now
3. Dickens and Imagination by Robert Higbie Buy Now
4. The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel by Patrica Ingham
5. Dickens Literary Architecture: Patterns of Ideas and Imagery in Hard Times by John R Harrison
6. Dickens pathology in ‘Hard Times’ by Eric P. Levy
7. Dickens and the Daughter of the House by Hilary M. Schor Buy Now
8. Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and Forgiveness by John R. Reed Buy Now

• The Mill on the Floss. Buy Now

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1. George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss by Harold Bloom Buy Now
2. Maggie Tulliver’s Sad Sacrifice: Confusing but not confused by June Skye Szirotny Female Sexuality and Triangular Desire in Vanity Fair and The Mill On The Floss by Phyllis Susan Dee
3. The Divided Heroine: A Recurrent Pattern in Six English Novels by H.M. Daleski Buy Now
4. Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women Fiction by Susan Meyer Buy Now
5. Romantic Imprisonment: Women and other Glorified Outcasts by Nina Auerbach
6. Women in Literature: Reading through the lens of Gender by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber Buy Now
7. The Stone and the Scorpion: The Female Subject Of Desire in Novels Of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot And Thomas Hardy by Judith Mitchell Buy Now

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Buy Now

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1. I’d My Life Unbe: Thomas Hardy’s Self Destructive Characters by Frank R. Giordano
2. Language, Violence and Irrevocability: Speech Acts in Tess of D’ Urbevilles by Santoshi Nishimura
3. The Decline Of The Goddess: Nature, Culture And Women In Thomas Hardy’s Fiction by Shirley A. Stave Buy Now
4. Dreaming Holmberry- Lipped Tess: Aboriginal Reverie and Spectatorial Desire in Tess of D’ Urbevilles by Adam Gussow
5. Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature and Literature by Joseph Carroll Buy Now

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Buy Now

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1. Understanding Adventures of Hucleberry Finn: A Student Casebook To Issues, Sources and Historical Documents by Claudia Durst Johnson Buy Now
2. Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain’s Creative Process by Victor A. Doyno Buy Now
3. Bends in the River: For Mark Twain Writing The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, His Masterpiece, Seemed Easy…But Only At First by Gregg Camfield Buy Now
4. Black, White and Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream by Harry Mensh, Elaine Mensh Buy Now
5. The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race In Huckleberry Finn by Jocelyn Chadwick- Joshua Buy Now
6. “There’s More Honor” Reinterpreting Tom And the Evasion in Huckleberry Finn by Kevin Michael Scott
7. “I Alwuz Liked Dead People, En Done All I Could for ’Em”: Reconsidering Huckleberry Finn’s African And American Identity By Jennifer Hildebrand

• Easter 1916
• The Second Coming
• A Prayer for my daughter.
• Sailing to Byzantium.
• The Tower.
• Among School Children.
• Leda and the Swan.
• Meru
• Lapis Lazuli

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1. Tragic Victory: The Doctrine Of Subjective Salvation in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats Buy Now
2. Running to Paradise: Yeats’ Poets Art by M.L. Rosenthal Buy Now
3. Yeats and the Logic Of Formalism by Vereen M. Bell Buy Now
4. What Rough Beast? Yeats, Nietzsche and Historic Rhetoric in “The Second Coming” by John R. Harrison
5. Modernism and Eugenics: Woolf, Eliot, Yeats and the Cultural Of Degeneration by Donald J. Childs Buy Now
6. Yeats: The Nineteenth Century Matrix by Dwight Eddins Buy Now

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1. T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage by Michael Grant Buy Now
2. Eliot the Enigma: An Observation of the Development of T.S. Eliot’s Thought and Poetry by Gray, Patrick Terrell
3. Three Writers in Exile: Pound, Eliot and Joyce by Doris L. Eder
4. The Impulse Towards Beauty in “Prufrock”, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets: T.S. Eliot’s Aesthetic Response To the Spiritual Collapse Of His Era by Joshua T. Boyd
5. The Poetry Of T.S Eliot by D.E.S Maxwell Buy Now

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1. W.H. Auden: The Critical Heritage by John Haffenden Buy Now
2. W.H. Auden by Harold Bloom Buy Now
3. The Poetry of W.H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island by Monroe K. Spears Buy Now
4. Auden’s Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality by Richard R. Bozorth Buy Now
5. The Romantic Survival: A study in Poetic Evolution by John Bayley Buy Now
6. In Defence Of Ignorance by Karl Shapiro Buy Now

• Next
• Please
• Deceptions
• Afternoons
• Days
• Mr. Bleaney

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1. New Poets Of England And America By Louis Simpson, Robert Pack, Donald Hall Buy Now
2. Sordid Images: The Poetry Of Masculine Desire by S.H. Clark
3. Society and Literature by Allan Sinfield Buy Now
4. Rule and Energy: Trends in British Poetry since the Second World War Buy Now
5. The Oxford Companion To Twentieth Century Poetry In English by Ian Hamilton Buy Now

• Looking for a Causim on a Swing
• A River
• Of Mothers, among other Things
• Love Poem for a Wife 1
• Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House
• Obituary

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1. A Source in Sorcery: The Black Hen and the Posthumous Poet by K. Narayana Chandran

• Sons and lovers Buy Now

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1. Interpretations: D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers By Harold Bloom
2. The Vital Art Of D.H Lawrence By Jack Stewart Buy Now
3. The Aching Hearth: Family Violence in Life and Literature by Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker
4. Writing Against The Family: Gender In Lawrence And Joyce By Cynthia Lewiecki- Wilson Buy Now
5. The Death Ego And Vital Self: Romances of Desire in Literature and Psychoanalysis by Gavriel Reisner Buy Now
6. The Novels Of D.H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration by John E. Stoll Buy Now

• A Passage To India Buy Now

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1. E.M. Forster’s A Passage To India by Harold Bloom Buy Now
2. E.M. Forster: The Critical Heritage by Phillip Gardner Buy Now
3. The Writings of E.M. Forster by Rose Macaulay
4. The Birth Of Liberal Guilt In English Novels: Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells by Daniel Born Buy Now
5. Failures that Connect; or Colonial Friendships in E.M. Forster’s A Passage To India Buy Now

• A House for Mr. Biswas Buy Now

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1. Crisis of Identity in the novels of VS Naipaul by Rosy Sinha
2. Critical perspectives On V.S. Naipaul By Robert H Hamner Buy Now
3. V.S. Naipaul Critical Essays by Mohit K Ray
4. Locating Naipaul: ‘Not English, Not Indian, Not Trinidadian’ by Harsh Trivedi
5. After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie By Michael Gorra Buy Now
6. V.S Naipaul: A Diasporic Vision By Kavita Nandan
7. The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives by Erin James Buy Now