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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Av Chris Baldick, Chris Baldick
Häftad, 2009
166 kr
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The Gothic tale has been with us for over two hundred years, but this collection is the first to illustrate the continuing strength of this special fictional tradition from its origins in the late eighteenth century. Gothic fiction is generally identified from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and …
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
Inbunden, 1989
2208 kr
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Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers – tall stories, simple stories, stories of mystery and wonder, love and violence – and Irish short-story writers are perhaps the most talented in the world. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition from the …
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
Inbunden, 2014
276 kr
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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 anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought …
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
Häftad, 2015
178 kr
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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 anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought …
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Av John Gross
Häftad, 2008
297 kr
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An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors.The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, …
The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse
Häftad, 2008
203 kr
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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, Drayton, Herbert, Dryden, and Rochester among others. Alastair Fowler's celebrated anthology maps the terrain afresh, including innumerable and …
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Häftad, 2008
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203 kr
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The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. …
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Häftad, 2008
203 kr
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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 creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented - …
The Oxford Book of Death
Häftad, 2008
161 kr
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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 presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the …
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories
Av Douglas Dunn
Häftad, 2008
198 kr
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From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story.Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three …
The Oxford Book of Essays
Av John Gross, John Gross
Häftad, 2008
203 kr
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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 also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. …
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse
Reissue
Av Roger Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the …
The Oxford Book of Prayer
Häftad, 2009
175 kr
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An attractive reissue of the late Bishop George Appleton's celebrated selection of over 1,100 prayers from many centuries and many traditions, including Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Iranian, Shinto, Classical Greek and Latin, native American, and Bahá'í. The wide-ranging contents …
The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse
Av Emrys Jones
Häftad, 2009
471 kr
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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 could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and achievements in hitherto neglected fields, is the …
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
Häftad, 2009
166 kr
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The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of both the …
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Av A. S. Byatt
Häftad, 2009
163 kr
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories , edited by A. S. Byatt, herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, …
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
Av John Gross
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the …
The Oxford Book of Short Stories
Häftad, 2010
166 kr
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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 collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.Great Britain, America, and especially Eire have fine …
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
Häftad, 2010
175 kr
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Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchaÃ, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of story-telling is by no means lost. This varied anthology …
The Oxford Book of French Short Stories
Av Fallaize, Elizabeth Fallaize
Häftad, 2010
166 kr
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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 Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the …
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Av Theodore W. Goossen, Theodore W. Goossen
Häftad, 2010
166 kr
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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 century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the …
The Oxford Book of Exploration
Av Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Häftad, 2010
145 kr
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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 anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who …
