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The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Theodore W Goossen Publisher Comments This collection of Japanese short stories, including many stories translated specially for this volume, is the first to cover the entire modern era: from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It includes works by two Nobel prize winners for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Cecilia Vicuna Publisher Comments Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world. Editors Cecilia Vicu�a and Ernesto Livon... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Death by D J Enright Publisher Comments "Reading for this anthology," writes D.J. Enright, "I was moved to the thought that on no theme have writers shown themselves more lively." A survivor of Belsen voiced the same sentiment when, reflecting on the concentration camps, he wrote, "When in... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) by Stewart Brown Publisher Comments The Caribbean produced what is arguably the most vigorous and exciting body of poetry of the twentieth century. In The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt have come together to produce the only anthology of Caribbean poetry... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross Publisher Comments Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, appear in this delightful anthology... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Victorian love stories :an Oxford anthology by Kate Flint Publisher Comments This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these stories range from the sentimental to the satiric, the crudely realistic to the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick Publisher Comments "But sometimes when I wake in the grey morning, and between waking and sleeping, think of all those things that I must shut out from my sleeping and waking thoughts, I wonder was I right or was he? Was he mad, or was I idiotically incredulous? For--and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse: A Conducted Tour by Frank Muir Publisher Comments If puritanism is, as H.L. Mencken once said, the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy, then this glorious, monumental collection by one of England's most popular humorists is a puritan's nightmare. Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction by Edward Ayers Publisher Comments Resonating with the testimony of slaves and slaveholders, the powerful and the powerless, women and men, black people and white, The Oxford Book of the American South combines the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross Publisher Comments When Montaigne developed the essay in the sixteenth century, he could not have imagined the power and longevity of his creation. "He did not set up for a philosopher, wit, orator, or moralist," wrote Hazlitt, "but he became all these by merely daring to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Creatures by Fleur Adcock Publisher Comments The animal kingdom has been celebrated in literature with an enthusiasm equalled only by our insatiable curiosity about the creatures with whom we share this planet. From Emily Dickinson's ode to the spider to Ogden Nash's musings on the lowly... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The New Oxford book of light verse by Kingsley Amis Publisher Comments This delightful anthology celebrates a rich and pleasing--if often underrated--tradition of English writing. The choice of poems reflects the great variety of light verse as well as the tastes and views of its distinguished editor. The selections range... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Book of Comic Verse (2ND 09 Edition) by John Gross Publisher Comments "Comic verse," writes editor John Gross, "is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go." In The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, Gross has combed the annals of literature in English from the middle... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of French Short Stories by Elizabeth Fallaize Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford book of garden verse by John Dixon Hunt Publisher Comments Gardens have been all things to all people: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, safety and danger, art and nature; public spaces and private retreats, places of physical labor and metaphysical reflection. This diversity and versatility have always... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments First published in 1987, The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories was hailed as "a world-class anthology" in The Washington Post Book World and as "a banquet of stories...to be savored and enjoyed over and over again" in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Now... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher B Ricks Publisher Comments This collection of more than 820 wonderful poems, both long and short, covers seven and a half centuries of English verse from all parts of the British Isles.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse by Roger Lonsdale Publisher Comments Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Travel Stories by Patricia Craig Publisher Comments Travel--long associated with marvels and adventure, excitement and mystery--has always proved an irresistible literary subject. Now, in The Oxford Book of Travel Stories, Patricia Craig brings together thirty-two fascinating travel stories, each one... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Ireland by Patricia Craig Publisher Comments Irish history lives more in the present than that of other countries, and there are constant reminders in these pages of past triumphs and tragedies, and their continuing impact on the national psyche. Conquest, famine, emigration, the decline of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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