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Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
A fresh contemporary look for the first anthology to trace the strength and diversity of Gothic fiction from its origins in the eighteenth century, with authors as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, Jorge Luis Borges, and Angela Carter.
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
This is an unrivaled 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, ...Show more
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
Category: Gift | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
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 since. ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by John Gross
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
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 British ...Show more
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories by A.S. Byatt
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Books of Prose S.
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, ranging fr ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories by T. A. (EDT) Shippey
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Books of Prose
The Oxford Book of French Short Stories by Elizabeth Fallaize
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
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 Marquis d ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose by Frank Muir
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Books of Prose S.
In this collection, Frank Muir guides the reader on a journey through five centuries of humorous prose in the English language. The extracts are embedded in a commentary that sets the writers in their historical context with items of contemporary gossip and anecdotal biography.
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by William (EDT) Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Books of Prose
The Oxford Book of Short Stories by V. S. (EDT) Pritchett
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Books of Prose
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