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The Oxford book of Hebrew short stories by Glenda Abramson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford book of Latin American short stories by Gonzalez Echevarria Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories by A S Byatt Publisher Comments "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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 (Oxford Books of Verse) by Helen Gardner Publisher Comments New edition of this single-volume anthology of English verse. It includes one hundred poets and nine hundred poems from seven centuries.... (read more) List Price $81.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford book of Irish short stories by William Trevor Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments "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) List Price $59.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Oxford Book of Short Poems by P J Kavanagh Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories by A S Byatt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry by John Wain About the Author 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse by Peter Porter Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century #1: The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Two-Volume Edition by Frank Kermode Synopsis 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) List Price $107.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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After Shakespeare: An Anthology by John Gross Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Douglas Dunn Publisher Comments 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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by John J 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 $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories by Stewart Brown Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction by Edward L Ayers Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments "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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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