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The Oxford book of Hebrew short stories
The Oxford book of Hebrew short stories
by Glenda Abramson
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It is unusual for a creative literature to be so much younger than its language, and the story of the development of Hebrew fiction is no less fascinating than the stories that embody it in this collection. The extraordinary revival of Hebrew as a spoken... (read more)

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The Oxford book of Latin American short stories
The Oxford book of Latin American short stories
by Gonzalez Echevarria
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Edited by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
by A S Byatt
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"The subjects of these stories range from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical," writes acclaimed novelist A.S. Byatt in her introduction to this remarkable collection. Indeed, if the... (read more)

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The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 (Oxford Books of Verse)
The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 (Oxford Books of Verse)
by Helen Gardner
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New edition of this single-volume anthology of English verse. It includes one hundred poets and nine hundred poems from seven centuries.... (read more)

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The Oxford book of Irish short stories
The Oxford book of Irish short stories
by William Trevor
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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 entertainment and as a form of communication," writes William Trevor. "For centuries they have been... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
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"How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be... (read more)

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Oxford Book of Short Poems
Oxford Book of Short Poems
by P J Kavanagh
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Memorable, witty, bawdy, profound--the short poem observes no limits except those of length. The verses collected in this anthology vary greatly in theme, style, and tone, but in each case brevity reveals the poet at his best. The short poem is often... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
by A S Byatt
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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 Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short... (read more)

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The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry
The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry
by John Wain
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About the Editor: John Wain is a writer who has published some twenty-five books in the past twenty-five years, including various anthologies and many critical studies of poetry.... (read more)

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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
by Christopher Ricks
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One of the great ages of poetry speaks for itself in this compendious anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets both reflected and resisted the attitudes of their era are keenly demonstrated. The... (read more)

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Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse
Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse
by Peter Porter
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In this new anthology, the noted Australian poet Peter Porter has compiled a strikingly original and impartial collection of modern Australian verse commencing in 1945. With an emphasis on wit, satire, and technical virtuosity, the collection offers many... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of War Poetry
The Oxford Book of War Poetry
by Jon Stallworthy
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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems included in this acclaimed anthology span centuries of human conflict from David's lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to... (read more)

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Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century #1: The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Two-Volume Edition
Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century #1: The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Two-Volume Edition
by Frank Kermode
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In one volume. This collection, published in six individual volumes or in this two-volume edition, presents the finest English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with introductory matter and extensive annotation by six of the... (read more)

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After Shakespeare: An Anthology
After Shakespeare: An Anthology
by John Gross
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No writer has served as such a powerful source of inspiration for other writers, or attracted such varied and widespread comment, as William Shakespeare. From West Side Story, Ivan Turgenev's A Lear of the Steppes, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
by Chris Baldick
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Brimming with tales of terror, suspense, and the uncanny, with dark castles and even gloomier monasteries, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales offers the first such collection devoted to this spine-tingling genre. Though Gothic fiction has generally been... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories
by Douglas Dunn
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Encompassing magical fairy tales and modern innovative works, The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories surveys the rich literary heritage of Scotland, in a collection of forty-four superb tales, the most extensive such anthology in print. Here readers... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
by John J Gross
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"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)

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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories
by Stewart Brown
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Some of the freshest, most vital, and diverse new literature written in the twentieth century has emerged from the Caribbean. And central to Caribbean literature is the short story, with its ties with the oral tradition. Now, The Oxford Book of Caribbean... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction
The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction
by Edward L Ayers
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The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth... (read more)

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
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"How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be... (read more)

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