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Synopsis The fifteen essays included in this volume are refreshingly original and cover a wide range of authors and subjects. Looking briefly at Keats the essays move on to the great Victorian novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, then linger for a considerable period in the world of T.S. Eliot, the greatest poet of the twentieth century, examine the expatriate sensibility of two American women writers -- Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri--of Indian extraction, reconnoiter West Africa through the eyes of Mary Kingsley and Gerald Durrell, visit Chinua Achebe and then end up with the Afro-American novels. An excursion into the worlds of these writers is bound to be as delightful as it will be rewarding. Since most of the authors discussed are widely prescribed in the university syllabus in India and abroad, teachers, scholars and students of English literature in English will find this volume extremely useful. The general readers who are interested in literature in English will also find this book an interesting and precious aesthetic experience.