'Prudence' is designed for the students at Senior Secondary level in Rajasthan as a text -book for English Literature. The text- book consists of five sections, namely Short stories, Poetry, Non-fiction, Drama, and lastly, Reading-Writing and Grammar. The aim of this selection is to make reading a pleasurable activity and the texts have a global flavour including illustrious authors, poets and playwrights from Britain, Ireland, America, Poland, New Zealand, China and India. Many of them are Nobel Laureates as well as the litterateurs who innovated in different genres, techniques and forms. Technical innovators like Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce etc. will prove interesting and challenging studies. The world literature is aimed at developing a deep and sensitive understanding of life at the universal level.