The New Oxford Book Of English Prose
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The New Oxford Book Of English Prose
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Author : John Gross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
The New Oxford Book Of English Prose written by John Gross and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American prose literature categories.
This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the romances of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match.
The New Oxford Book Of English Prose
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Author : John Gross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
The New Oxford Book Of English Prose written by John Gross and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the legends of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kashuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match. The book represents an enormous diversity of men and women - from John Bunyan to John Updike, from Brendan Behan to Chinua Achebe, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Patrick White. As the centuries progress, American writers increase their presence, and by the twentieth century there are contributions fromIndia, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. The selection is no less remarkable for its breadth in terms of subject-matter and treatment. Fiction is generously represented, but many other kinds of writing have also been drawn on: letters, diaries, and memoirs; history and philosophy; criticism and reportage; sermons and satire; travel-books;reflections on art, science, politics and sport. There are classic and well-loved passages, and also a great deal that is unfamiliar. John Gross has chosen with consummate skill to produce a volume that is both a testimonial to English prose and an endless source of pleasurable browsing.
The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes
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Author : John Gross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008
The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes written by John Gross and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird.
The New Oxford Book Of Seventeenth Century Verse
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Author : Alastair Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2008-10
The New Oxford Book Of Seventeenth Century Verse written by Alastair Fowler and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Literary Collections categories.
Alistair Fowler's celebrated anthology includes generous selections from the work of all the century's major poets, notably Donne, Jonson, Milton, Drayton, Herbert, Marvell, and Dryden. It strikes a balance between Metaphysical wit and intellect and Jonsonian simplicity, while also accommodating hitherto neglected popular verse. The result is a truer, more Catholic representation of seventeenth-century verse than any previous anthology.
The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250 1918
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Author : Arthur Quiller-Couch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250 1918 written by Arthur Quiller-Couch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with English poetry categories.
The Oxford Book Of Exploration
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Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2005
The Oxford Book Of Exploration written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
The Oxford Handbook Of English Prose 1500 1640
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Author : Andrew Hadfield
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-07-04
The Oxford Handbook Of English Prose 1500 1640 written by Andrew Hadfield and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.
The Oxford Book Of War Poetry
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Author : Jon Stallworthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Oxford Book Of War Poetry written by Jon Stallworthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with War poetry categories.
The New Oxford Book Of Victorian Verse
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Author : Christopher Ricks
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
The New Oxford Book Of Victorian Verse written by Christopher Ricks and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Gathers poems by Tennyson, Emily Bronte, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, A.E. Housman, Yeats, Hardy, and Hopkins.
The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse
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Author : John Gross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse written by John Gross and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Humor categories.
From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, from clerihew to music-hall lyrics, from the double-dactyl of the calypso, it offers an exceptionally widerange of comic pleasures. The poems in this collection are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful; written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. The established classics of comic verse, writers such as Tom Hood, W. S. Gilbert, and Ogden Nash, are represented in force, but many unfamiliar or unexpected names are also included; so are many recent writers - the classics of the future. This collection undoubtedly contains matterof great historical interest, but the emphasis throughout is firmly on enjoyment.