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The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories by Joseph Bristow Publisher Comments When we think of adventure we envision feats of derring-do, perilous journeys into the remote wilderness, swashbuckling deeds on the high seas, and survival in the face of impossible odds. Now, in a collection that challenges our very notion of adventure,... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature by W H Wilde Publisher Comments Unique in its field, exhaustive in scope, the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature offers a comprehensive account of Australian writing from European settlement in 1788 to the 1990s. It presents the most important achievements in the fields of... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford book of Travel Verse by Kevin Crossley-Holland Publisher Comments As pilgrims, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, diplomats, merchants, and tourists, the British have for centuries ventured forth to see the world. Great poets such as Marvell, Shelley, Coleridge, and Rossetti, as well as many other lesser known... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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The New Oxford book of Irish verse by Thomas Kinsella Publisher Comments Never have the immense riches of Irish poetry been displayed to better advantage in this magnificent new collection. The Irish poetic tradition is generally not considered in its entirety. For the poetry in Irish, especially in the early and medieval... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Book of Narrative Verse by Iona Opie Publisher Comments Succinctly called "a book of tales of various kinds, romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written at any time over the past six hundred years" by the compilers, Iona Opie and the late Peter Opie, this universally-appealing collection of 59 poems... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Spy Stories by Michael Cox Publisher Comments "The redline of a laser gunsight split the darkness and targeted the wall next to his head. There was a muffled sound like a dry cough and a bullet thudded into the wall above him. He slid forward under the bed...." Graham Greene's classic spy tale "A... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford book of comic verse 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 $35.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford book of essays by John Gross Publisher Comments Now in a more readable format, this sweeping collection ranges from the early 1600s through the 1980s and includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross, former book critic for The New York Times, has... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Exile by John Simpson Publisher Comments From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and how people... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Ireland by Patricia Craig Publisher Comments "Ireland! Ireland! Ireland! The word falls on the ear with the gentle persistence of rain on the shores of Kerry," said Honor Tracy. "The Irishman," said Robert Lynd, "is one of the world's greatest puzzles." Just what is the true essence of Ireland? And... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Short Stories by V S Pritchett Publisher Comments Only V.S. Pritchett, one of the most distinguished living writers of short stories in English, could tackle the daunting task of compiling a short story anthology, a project that entails displaying in a single volume the wealth and variety of an art that... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse by D H S Nicholson Publisher Comments Recommended by Joel Goldsmith - an anthology of spiritual and mystical verse in the English language from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. First published by the Oxford University Press in 1917, and reprinted numerous times, it has been out of print... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories by Patricia Craig Publisher Comments "The inadequate acknowledgement of women short story writers in standard anthologies is a cause for wonder or affront. How else, indeed, can you view it, given the riches overlooked?" So states editor Patricia Craig in her introduction to The Oxford Book... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - 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 $30.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford book of women's writing in the United States by Linda Wagner Martin Publisher Comments Provocative and compulsively readable, lively, engaging, and brilliantly representative, The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States presents short stories, poems, essays, plays, speeches, performance pieces, erotica, diaries, correspondence,... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse by D H S Nicholson Publisher Comments Recommended by Joel Goldsmith - an anthology of spiritual and mystical verse in the English language from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. First published by the Oxford University Press in 1917, and reprinted numerous times, it has been out of print... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 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, with each one... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Book of Marriage by Helge Rubinstein Publisher Comments For richer or for poorer, for better or for worse, virtually everyone at one time in his or her life utters the fateful words: "I do." Many of us live to regret these words, but as Charles Darwin noted in his journal: "There's many a happy slave." Now... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford book of letters by Frank Kermode Publisher Comments Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into the lives of others--their pledges of love and their sharp remonstrances, their thoughts on war and peace and the gossip of the day, their... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $0.95 Used - Hardcover
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New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks Publisher Comments The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse brings to life a great age of poetry which past generations have viewed with condescension because of its supposed prudery, sentimentality, and lack of irony. Christopher Ricks' selection of 560 poems written by 115... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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