The Oxford Book of Short Stories

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• V. S. Pritchett, one our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a colle... Lees meer

The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse

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• The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the Golden Age of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

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• Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish conversation, both as ... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Essays

John Gross

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• The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can al... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Chris Baldick

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• Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, this work offers a collection devoted to the best of the Gothic genre. Each story contains t... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

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• The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvelous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th cen... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

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• Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish conversation, both as ... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

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• This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth... Lees meer

New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse

Roger Lonsdale

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• Hailed as a major event (John Carey, Sunday Times ), a major anthology: one of the best that Oxford has ever produced (James Fenton, The Times ), the ... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse

John J Gross

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• From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought tog... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories

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• From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham G... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse

Stewart Brown, Mark McWatt

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• Caribbean verse is among the most diverse and exciting in the world, encompassing work from nations as different as Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica, Dominica... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Prayer

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• Now reset with a fresh contemporary look, here is an attractive reissue of the late Bishop George Appletons celebrated selection of over 1,100 prayers... Lees meer

The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse

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• The seventeenth century was a period of remarkable achievement in the field of English poetry: it was the age of Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Jonson, ... Lees meer

The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

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• A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and crea... Lees meer

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• This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of ... Lees meer

The New Oxford Book of War Poetry

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• There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anth... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories

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• Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three early traditional tales, and including... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Exploration

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

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• Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, described by the Sunday Times as the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive antholog... Lees meer

The New Oxford Book of War Poetry

Stallworthy, Jon

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• New edition of the celebrated anthology, spanning the centuries of human experience of conflict. Includes an updated selection, with 42 new works. 'Fu... Lees meer

The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

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• In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes , master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering stri... Lees meer

The Oxford Book of Death

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• The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D.J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection p... Lees meer