Value-added World Classics Exclusive to Wink Brand
Bangalore, June 3, 2011 - Wink Classics e-series, now available on the winkstore, offers the best of world literature. An offering from WinkPublish, EC Media’s publishing programme these editions give the reader added value, in the form of a brief biography and author’s chronology and a detailed Introduction that suggests ways of reading the text.
Currently this evergrowing e-series has 32 classics in its list which includes well-loved titles like Sons and Lovers, Mrs. Dalloway, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights. From knights to tramps, from shape-shifting to mind-bending, hounds to vampires, romance to terror – this Series gives you a variety of pleasures, the wildly humorous, the duskily mysterious as well as the deliciously horrific. These are works that have enjoyed popularity since their appearance, but have also been read in different ways, and for different reasons.
The series consultant Pramod K Nayar, teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India and his interests include English colonial writings on India, postcolonial studies, posthumanism, literary and cultural theory and superhero comics. He has authored An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday (Sage 2009), Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture (Sage 2009), A Short History of English Literature (Cambridge UP, 2009), Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism (Pearson-Longman, 2009), Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (Pearson-Longman, 2008); English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics (Routledge, 2008), Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2011) and States of Sentiment: Exploring the Cultures of Emotion (Orient BlackSwan, 2011) other books in literary and cultural studies. Digital Cool: Life in the Age of New Media (Penguin) is one of his forthcoming works.
About EC Media
EC Media is the world’s fastest growing online newsstand and bookstore with a focus on Indian languages and India based publications, books, magazines and newspapers. Their content platform, the Wink Ecosystem, seamlessly interconnects authors, publishers, aggregators, reviewers, telecom providers, OEM players with the reader. Founded in 2009 by a team of Silicon Valley technologists in association with one of India’s most respected publishing house, DC Books, the company is on a committed journey to create a unique one-stop-platform that offers easy and ready global access of published literature anywhere, anytime. EC Media is headquartered in Bangalore, India with sales, marketing and delivery units located around the country.
