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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
by Arnold Rampersad  Publisher Comments Reflecting the variety of visions and styles of African-American poets over two centuries, this anthology offers nothing less than a definitive literary portrait of a people....
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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...
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Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto - Vathek - The Monk - Frankenstein
by Oxford University Pr Publisher Comments Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothis tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly...
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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...
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Twelve Gothic Tales
by Richard Dalby Publisher Comments In this anthology we see a dozen fine examples of Gothic literature, spanning over one hundred and fifty years--from Mary Shelley and Charles Maturin's classic fiction up to an unexpected master of the macabre, Gerald Durrell. All of the tales feature...
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The Oxford Book of English Love Stories
by John Sutherland Publisher Comments Adulterous love, marital love, virginal love, religious devotion, agape, lust, eros: there are an infinite variety of meanings that can be packed into the four letters that spell love, and writers of fiction have been trying for centuries to plumb its...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Oxford Anthology of English Literat Volume 2
by Frank Kermode Synopsis A fully-annotated, two-volume work which presents the major literary achievements of English writers from the medieval period to the twentieth century....
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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...
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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...
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The Oxford Book of Sonnets
by John Fuller Publisher Comments The sonnet is the best-loved and most versatile of poetic forms, alive and well after over 450 years in English. It is still an automatic choice for the expression of intense but controlled feelings on both private and public subjects. Although it is...
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Anthology of Seventeenth-century Fiction (91 Edition)
by Paul (ed.) Salzman Synopsis This anthology collects works by authors including Bunyan, Congreve, Thomas Dangerfield, and Percy Herbert. Early examples of prose fiction by female writers, such as Aphra Behn, Mary Wroth, and Margaret Cavendish, should be useful for women's studies...
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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...
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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...
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Oxford Anthology of English Lit Volume 1
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...
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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...
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