This book is intended for students of English literature at A' level and above; general readers interested in a complete history of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century.

This third volume of the complete works of Browning offers six of his Bells and Pomegranates pamphlets--including Pippa Passes, four other dramatic works, and the first of the great collections of short poems. Jack provides textual variants, introductions to the poems, the first full and rigorous annotation to the work, appendices--including versions of the "Pied Piper" story as told by Browning's father--and the rare inclusion of Browning's essay on Shelley.

"The Granta Book of India" brings together evocative, personal and informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the world's leading literary magazine. Here are eighteen contemporary voices sketching one of the world's most dynamic places in fiction, reportage and memoir.
Contributors include Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, a city "with an identity crisis; " Chitrita Banerji, on "What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat"; Pankaj Mishra, on the making of jihadis in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and Rory Stewart, among the dervishes of Pakistan. Ramachandra Guha and Amit Chaudhuri remember...