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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Childrens Verse in America
Book SynopsisCompiled by the award-winning poet and author of children''s books, Donald Hall, this delightful anthology follows in the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie''s classic Oxford Book of Children''s Verse. Hall brings together poems written specifically for children and also those written for anyone and enjoyed by children and adults alike. He presents over two hundred fifty poems written by over one hundred different American poets--including anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces--that range from the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century to the fabulous nonsense poems of the present. Drawing on literally thousands of sources--including Sunday School magazines, Christmas annuals for children, and such wonderful children''s periodicals as St. Nicholas and Youth''s Companion--Hall gives the modern reader a rich sampling of many poems never before anthologized. He includes everyone''s favorites, from Clement Clarke Moore''s A Visit from St. Nicholas (a.k.a. The Night Before ChriTrade Review"[Hall's] fascinating anthology will remain valuable, both as a source of the poems we once loved that have vanished from later collections, and as a fascinating and well-researched history of the form."--Alison Lurie, The New York Times Book Review"Brings out the kid in any of us."--David Lehman, The Washington Post Book World"I'll return to this book again and again, whether or not I have a child on my knee."--The Christian Science Monitor"Excellent in every way.... It shows us, as no other evidence could, how often and how greatly our society has changed its conception of the child's mind and world."--Richard Wilbur"An entertaining collection of old and new, this is an anthology to add to the family library but not to keep on the shelf. Circulate it among family and friends, and, above all, read it aloud."--The Sunday Boston Globe"Donald Hall has put together a long-needed treasure of a book. At a time when most poetry for children sounds as if it were written by a sponge dipped in sugared milk he has brought together the true best of a great and ignored tradition. I wish every American child could grow up with it. I wish I had it as a child."--John Ciardi
£17.99
Oxford University Press Hardboiled
Book SynopsisWhat are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? `Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex,'' said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blonde, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. - the likes of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. These elements, typifying the gritty strain of American crime fiction termed `hard boiled'', have profoundly influenced the public''s imagination, both through the literary mainstream and through the many films based on hard-boiled fiction (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice etc.). Hard-boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its beginnings in the 1920s to the present day. It contains stories by Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, anTrade Reviewan anthology of consistently high quality, full of forgotten gems alongside the famous names, and a potent reminder that it's a noir, noir world. * John Williams, The Mail on Sunday *One of the best anthologies ever to trace the hard-nosed, amoral school of American short crime fiction. * Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph *
£22.49
Oxford University Press The Literary West
Book SynopsisThe story of western literature is the story of two Wests, the one immediately and deeply persuasive, the second more complex in its intentions and effects. This anthology, gathered and introduced by distinguished western scholar Thomas J. Lyon, offers a panoramic literary range of the American west, from the romance of the mythic Wild West to the present-day creative explosion of the real, diverse west. The regional expanse of this authoritative and adventuresome selection of short stories, essays, plays, and novel excerpts stretches from the Great Plains, Texas and the Southwest, the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin interior, to California and the Northwest. Including selections from Pedro Font, Meriweather Lewis, Willa Cather, James Fenimore Cooper, Owen Wister, Zane Grey, John Muir, Tillie Olsen, Rick Bass, Amy Tan, Sarah Winnemucca, and N. Scott Momaday, among others, the volume is organized in five main sections: Discovery and Exploration, Pioneering and Settlement, The MythicTrade Review"Distinguished western scholar Thomas J. Lyon, in editing The Literary West, has compiled an impressive array of writings on the American West, past and present....Lyon's introduction is uncommonly helpful as it presents a summary of writings west of the Mississippi, from the conquistadors to the Lone Ranger and beyond."--Texas Globe "Excellent selection of texts....The introduction by Dr. Lyon is absolutely superb--as is the Western Chronology. These two items really, 'make' the book! One could buy the book just for those!"--Dr. Denis Fournier, University of Mary "A powerful, well-made tool, one students and general readers alike can handle without feeling burdened or intimidated by length and one that provides specialists with plenty of reference material, not to mention as easy grip on both past and present. In the end, few informed readers will be able to argue with Lyon's judgments or his knowledge, much less with his refreshing willingness to take chances.. The Literary West is definitely a book made to last."--The Bloomsbury Review "No one has a better grasp of Western Literature and its relationship to the authentic history of the West than Thomas Lyon."--Stewart Udall "A tantalizing overview of western American literature from the sixteenth century to the present....A culturally and historically significant literary collection."--BooklistTable of ContentsIntroduction:The Conquistador, the Lone Ranger, and Beyond A Western Chronology, With 200 Significant Titles Kathlamet Chinook (oral tradition) "The Sun's Myth" Pedro Font[Ventura to Santa Barbara in 1776], from Pedro Font's Diary Lewis and Clark[North Dakota journals from the spring of 1805], from The Journals of Lewis and Clark John Muir"Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep," from My First Summer in the Sierra Clarence Dutton"The Valley of the Virgen," from Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District Sarah Winnemucca from Life Among the Piutes Hamlin Garland"Under the Lion's Paw," from Main Traveled Roads Owen Wister from The Virginian Mary Austin"My Neighbor's Field," from The Land of the Little Rain Jack London"All Gold Canyon," from Moon-face and Other Stories Zane Grey from Riders of the Purple Sage Willa Cather from O Pioneers! from My Antonia Dorothy Scarborough from The Wind Robinson Jeffers "Granite and Cypress" "Tor House" "November Surf" "Gray Weather" "Signpost" "The Answer" Luther Standing Bear"Nature," from Land of the Spotted Eagle John SteinbeckChapters 1, 2, and 3, from The Grapes of Wrath A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Chapters 31 and 32, from The Big Sky Jack SchaeferChapter 1, from Shane Frank Waters"Hopi Ceremonialism," from Masked Gods Jose Antonio Villarreal from Pocho William Stafford "In Response to a Question" "Speaking Frankly" "Representing Far Places" "Montana Eclogue" N. Scott Momaday"Introduction" to The Way to Rainy Mountain Al Young"Dancing," from Dancing Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. HoustonChapter 4, from Farewell to Manzanar Edward Abbey"The Great American Desert," from The Journey Home Wallace StegnerPart 2, chapter 5, from Recapitulation Sam Shepard "True West" Rudolfo Anaya"B. Traven Is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca," from The Anaya Reader Gary Snyder "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" "Marin-An" "Anasazi" "Magpie's Song" "True Night" Gretel Ehrlich"On Water," from The Solace of Open Spaces Louis L'AmourChapter 16, from Last of the Breed Denise Chavez"The Last of the Menu Girls," from The Last of the Menu Girls May Swenson "The Centaur" "The Poplar's Shadow" "Camping in Madera Canyon" Charles Bowden"Afterword" from Frog Mountain Blues Amy Tan"Waverly Jong: Rules of the Game," from The Joy Luck Club Terry Tempest Williams"Snowy Plovers" from Refuge William Kittredge"Reimagining Warner," from Heart of the Land Rick Bass"Days of Heaven," from In The Loyal Mountains Barbara Kingsolver"Why I Am a Danger to the Public," from Homeland and Other Stories Linda Hogan"Creations," from Heart of the Land Guide to Further Reading
£27.93
Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of the American South
Book SynopsisThe 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 century to the present. Renowned authors such as James Agee, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Flannery O''Connor appear in these pages, but so do people whose writing did not immediately reach a large audience. For example, Harriet A. Jacobs'' book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which is now recognized as one of the most illuminating narratives of a former slave, was neglected for generations. And Sarah Morgan''s powerful Civil War Diary has only recently come to widespread attention. The Oxford Book of the American South presents compelling autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and journalism as well as stories and selections from novels, and runs the spectrum from the conservative to tTrade Reviewwise and comprehensive volume of Southern writing ... * The Observer, 10 August 1997 *an anthology with a clear purpose and a coherent pattern evident through its 600 well-balanced pages. * The Independent Weekend section, 2 August 1997 *
£23.99
Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Womens Writing in the United States
Book SynopsisProvocative 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, and even a few recipes from nearly one hundred of our best women writers. Reveling in the awareness that the best U.S. women''s writing is, quite simply, some of the best in the world, editors Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson have chosen selections spanning four centuries and reflecting the rich variety of American women''s lives. The collection embraces the perspectives of age and youth, the traditional and the revolutionary, the public and the private. Here is Judith Sargent Murray''s 1790 essay On the Equality of the Sexes, journalist Martha Gellhorn''s Last Words on Vietnam, 1987, and Mary Gordon''s homage to the ghosts of Ellis Island, More Than Just a Shrine; powerful short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Wharton, Trade Review"A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry....[The] invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--Steven G. Kellman, USA Today"What an extraordinary collection! The editors have compiled a rich selection of powerful texts in a wide variety of genres and have organized them with such imagination that the book is both a sourcebook for exploring the cultural history of women's experience in the U.S. and a remarkably compact, yet quite comprehensive, literary survey. It belongs on every reader's bookshelf."--Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside"There is no more exciting collection of women's writing in the United State than this one--a panoply of delights that I can't wait to teach from. The selections (from modern and classic women writers) show the rich complexity of women at work in every form, from recipes and erotica through political treatises and performance peices. Now, one can imagine a course in women's writing that will capture students' imaginations, and that will appeal to their bodies, stomachs, souls, and minds."--Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College"A superb collection representing the full range of American women's writing over four centuries--and a great read besides. Particularly valuable are the new conceptual categories the editors introduce, which promote fresh approaches to both familiar and unfamiliar examples of women's writing."--Carolyn L. Karcher, Temple University"This is the best source for teaching the continuum of writing by women that I know of. The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States will change the canon of American literature. Watch out Hemingway. Make way, Faulkner. There is another range of voice to be heard."--E.M. Broner, author A Weave of Women, The Telling, and Mornings and Mourning"A lush collection! Each selection obviously reflects a caring and thoughtful decision that respects and celebrates the craft and event of women's writing in the United States. Wagner-Martin and Davidson have made insistent and clear the impressive breadth of women's writing--as well the elegant diversity of women who write. This is surely a volume to treasure and teach."--Karla F.C. Holloway, author Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character"A masterly and comprehensive anthology giving context to the long battle for the vote--and for women's continuing struggle in the years since." --Library Journal"Offers a sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry....Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--USA Today"A generous survey of American women's voices that is as remarkable for its quality as it is for its breadth....As textbook, reference work, or cover-to-cover recreational reading, this collection is an outstanding editorial achievement."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Editors Wagner-Martin and Davidson pay tribute to the vibrant variety of American women's lives and writing in this meandering and happily idiosyncratic anthology....They've created a wonderful spectrum that stretches from Edith Wharton to Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson to Adrienne Rich, Emma Goldman to Anna Quindlen, zouisa May Alcott to Laurie Anderson."--Booklist"The editors offer a broad range that includes well-known Anglo writers as well as a handful of ethnic writers. It's this kind of balance that makes turning each page a joy. Whether you are discovering Helena Maria Viramontes or rediscovering Edith Wharton, it's a gem you can't put down....The editors have succeeded in bringing cohesion to a rich history of women's writing in the United States."--Copley News Service
£28.77
Oxford University Press The Great War and Modern Memory
Book SynopsisThe year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British experience on the western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing on the various literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized and mythologized. It is also about the literary dimensions of the experience itself. Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for writers who have most effectively memorialized the Great War as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning. These writers include the classic memoirists Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden, and poets David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen. In his new introduction Fussell discusses the critical responses to his work, the authors and works that inspired his own writing, and the elements which influence our undTrade Review"One of the best nonfiction works I've ever read. I'm a huge fan of virtually everything Fussell has ever done, but this unique book, which uses literature and social history to examine World War I, may be his best. Unflinching."--James Gray, he Week "Literary and historical materials, in themselves not unfamiliar, are brought together in a probing, sympathetic, and finally illuminating fashion. It is difficult to think of a scholarly work in recent years that has more deeply engaged the reader at both the intellectual and emotional level."--The New Republic (on the previous edition) "Paul Fussell's Great War and Modern Memory introduced an entirely new and creative way of writing both about war and the literature it generates. It has been a profound influence on historians and literary critics alike. It is a model of intelligence and fine writing and will remain a key text in our culture for decades to come."--John Keegan Praise for the previous edition "Skillful, compassionate....An important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I part of our minds."--Frank Kermode, The New York Times Book Review "One doesn't know quite where to begin to praise this book in which literary and historical materials, in themselves not unfamiliar, are brought together in a probing, sympathetic, and finally illuminating fashion. It is difficult to think of a scholarly work in recent years that has more deeply engaged the reader at both the intellectual and emotional level."--The New Republic "A learned and well-balanced book that is also bright and sensitive....A last irony leaps from these pages: the men of the First World War were heroes as great as the cast of the Iliad, yet their words destroyed the concept of themselves, of all warriors, and of war itself as heroic."--The New YorkerTable of ContentsA Satire Of Circumstance ; The Troglodyte World ; Adversary Proceedings ; Myth, Ritual, and Romance ; Oh What a Literary War ; Theater of War ; Arcadian Recourses ; Soldier Boys ; Persistence and Memory
£38.78
Oxford University Press A New Omnibus of Crime
Book SynopsisThis new collection will pick up where Dorothy L. Sayers'' The Omnibus of Crime (1929) left off - in the heart of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction - bringing together monumental, entertaining works of mystery short fiction from the early 1930s to the present, from the inter-war years of the twentieth century to first years of the twenty-first century. Herbert will introduce each story, placing the selection in the context of the author and the genre''s literary history. Emphasis will be placed upon representing the most exciting styles and voices in the genre rather than a slavish servitude to a decade-by-decade approach. Stories on the short list include Norman Mailer The Killer, P.D. James Great Aunt Allie''s Fly Papers or The Victim, Sue Grafton The Parker Shotgun, Frankie Y. Bailey Since You Went Away, John Cheever Montraldo, Paul Theroux The Johore Murders, Tony Hillerman First Lead Gasser, David Winser The Boat Race Murder, James M. Cain Cigarette Girl, Dorothy L. Sayers The NTrade Review"The collection provides a good picture of the genre as it developed during the twentieth-century." * Natasha Cooper, TLS *"This goody-bag, an ideal last minute Christmas present, proves that writers and readers are still, and always will be, in Sayers's debt." * Mark Sanderson, Evening Standard *
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Oxford University Press Tree of Souls
Book SynopsisOnly one of the world''s mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. The myths themselves are marvelous. We read of Adam''s diamond and the Land of Eretz (where it is always dark), the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and the moon, the Treasury of Souls and the Divine Chariot. We discover new tales about the great figures of the Hebrew Bible, from Adam to Moses; stories about God''s Bride, the Shekhinah, and the evil temptress, Lilith; plus many tales about angels and demons, spirits and vampires, giant beasts and the Golem. Equally imporTrade Review"Sixhundred and seventy stories are collected, retold, and annotated in this attractive manual, meant to be on the shelves of Jewish households and friends of Jewish lore and legend. Each item is followed by the compiler's interpretive comments, a list of the relevant biblical and postbiblical sources, and often also by a reference to relevant secondary literature...The book includes an excellent subject index and a bibliography.- This volume should be in the Judaica section of all libraries."--International Review of Biblical Studies"This remarkable work will be of interest to both the scholar and the browser."--Booklist"One of those few books that can be cherished and enjoyed by all readers, whether scholars or merely those interested in good stories.... In this massive work, Schwartz gathers nearly seven hundred myths to show that there is, indeed, a Jewish mythology. His selections are wisely and cleverly chosen.... No one in recent times has even attempted to put together such a comprehensive work. In both the collecting and organizing of his material, Schwartz has done a masterful job."--Josepha Sherman, Parabola"Howard Schwartz offers a resounding rebuttal to the old accusation that the Jews have no mythology: hundreds of myths, in an unbroken line from the Tanakh itself to many new, previously untranslated contemporary retellings from the Middle East and throughout the diaspora. Tree of Souls illuminates the mythic elements of stories previously seen as theological or folkloric. Now properly classified as world mythology, they will for the first time be more accurately compared and contrasted with the foundational myths of other cultures. This is that rare book that is both a fascinating read for the non-specialist and a turning point for scholarship." --Wendy Doniger, author of The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation"Beyond any of his other books, in Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism Howard Schwartz offers us his masterwork. If only Joseph Campbell had lived to see it. Schwartz has brought the underground streams of Midrash to the surface for the delight and edification of his academic as well as his popular readers." --Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, author of Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters"Under the complex, meaning-rich, and culturally important heading of 'mythology,' Howard Schwartz provides a beautifully introduced and annotated collection of essential stories and scenes that help to define Judaism in the classical tradition. Schwartz's careful, erudite method of presentation and his excellent selection of texts reveals fine mastery of the material and the pleasingly comparative orientation of the folklorist." --Susan Niditch, author of Ancient Israelite Religion"Tree of Souls promises to shatter the myth that Judaism is mythless. Drawing on primary source texts of the Jewish tradition itself, storyteller Howard Schwartz introduces us to a dimension of this ancient path that has for centuries been overshadowed by attempts at religious correctness and party-line theology. Jewish mythology, Schwartz demonstrates with ample commentaries, is not only a fact, it is the very kernel out of which grew the deepest of Kabbalistic mystery wisdom as well as the most pragmatic of Jewish law and lore. Clearly, Judaism owes its survival to its mythology, and in Tree of Souls Schwartz invites us to discover the mystique, actually the very life force, of this very ancient religion." --Gershon Winkler, author of Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in JudaismTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Book One:: Myths of God Book Two:: Myths of Creation Book Three:: Myths of Heaven Book Four:: Myths of Hell Book Five:: Myths of the Holy Word Book Six:: Myths of the Holy Time Book Seven:: Myths of the Holy People Book Eight:: Myths of the Holy Land Book Nine:: Myths of Exile Book Ten:: Myths of the Messiah
£29.49
Oxford University Press The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature
Book SynopsisThough the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era''s literature in English. The Oxford Anthology of Literature in the Roman World provides a general introduction to the literature of the Roman empire at its zenith, between the second century BC and the second century AD. Two features of this extraordinarily fertile period in literary achievement as evidenced by this anthology are immediately and repeatedly clear: how similar the Romans'' view of the world was to our own and, perhaps even more obviously, how different it was. Most of the authors included in the anthology wrote in Latin, but as the anthology moves forward in time, relevant Greek texts that reflect the cultural diversity of Roman literary life are also included, something no other such anthology has done in the past. Roman literature was wonderfully creative and diverse, and the texts in this volume were chosen from a broad range of genres: drama, epic, philosophy, satire, lyric poetry, love poetry. By its very nature an anthology can abbreviate and thus obscure the most attractive features of even a masterpiece, so the two editors have not only selected texts that capture the essence of the respective authors, but also have included accompanying introductions and afterwords that will guide the reader in pursuing further reading. The presentations of the selections are enlivened with illustrations that locate the works within the contexts of the world in which they were written and enjoyed. The student and general reader will come away from this learned yet entertaining anthology with a fuller appreciation of the place occupied by literature in the Roman world.Trade ReviewThe editors paint an intriguing portrait of the interdisciplinary challenges in harvesting history from a body of ancient literature * Library Journal *This is simply the best collection available today of ancient sources from the Roman world. The translations are consistently readable and appealing. The prefaces to each selection are of exceptional quality, and make this a useful reference work for all readers. The afterwords likewise contain fascinating introductions to the post-classical history and tradition of each selection, and are worth reading for their own sake. Knox and McKeown are to be applauded for the real service they have done for Classics teachers and students everywhere with this valuable volume. * Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College *The two editors have outstanding reputations as Latin scholars, and they write in a very accessible manner, communicating a great deal of information with clarity and energy. The main strengths of the book are that it covers a remarkable range of Roman literature in authoritative translations and also provides a totally reliable and scholarly background for each text. The editors give us a fascinating line-up of great variety, even including Greek authors who wrote about Roman affairs. It is the only book of its kind on the market, and fills a real gap. * Denis Feeney, Princeton University *Succinct yet highly informative and colorfully written forewords and afterwords give excellent orientation to the wide and very rich selection of readings in this well-judged anthology of Roman literature. Less advanced students will find a very practical but entertaining introduction to landmark texts of the Republican and Imperial eras; but more advanced students will also find much of value in the editors' state-of-the-art cultural-historical contextualization of their selections. * Gareth Williams, Columbia University *an impressive collection of material * Simon Squires, Classics for All *Table of ContentsPreface ; The Roman World of Books ; I. The Early Period ; Plautus, The Brothers Menaechmus ; Polybius, The Histories ; II. The Late Republic ; Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe ; Catullus, Poems ; Cicero, Against Catiline ; In Defense of Caelius ; Julius Caesar, The Gallic War ; Sallust, Catiline's Conspiracy ; III. The Augustan Age ; Virgil, Georgics ; Aeneid ; Propertius, Elegies ; Horace, Odes ; Livy, From the Foundation of the City ; Ovid, Amores ; Metamorphoses ; IV. The Early Empire ; Seneca, Medea ; Josephus, Jewish Antiquities ; Lucan, Civil War ; Petronius, The Satyricon ; Pliny the Elder, Natural History ; Statius, Thebaid ; Quintilian, The Orator's Education ; Martial, Epigrams ; V. The High Empire ; Tacitus, Annals ; Pliny the Younger, Epistles ; Suetonius, Life of Nero ; Plutarch, Antony ; Juvenal, Satires ; Apuleius, Metamorposes ; Lucian, True History ; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ; Postscript ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; Maps ; Chronological Table ; Glossary
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Oxford University Press The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume III The Picture of Dorian Gray The 1890 and 1891 Texts
Book SynopsisReprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of the famous story, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as separate works. This volume provides readers with a detailed account of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.Trade Review...its editorial treatment is exemplary * Peter Hollindale, The Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Editorial Introduction ; Bibliographical Description ; Abbreviations and Symbols ; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1890) ; Textual Notes (1890 Edition) ; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891) ; Textual Notes (1890 Edition) ; Commentary
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Oxford University Press Firmly I Believe and Truly
Book SynopsisAn Anthology of Writings from 1483 to 1999 Firmly I Believe and Truly celebrates the depth and breadth of the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of the Post-Reformation English Roman Catholic tradition in an anthology of writings that span a five hundred year period between William Caxton and Cardinal Hume. Intended as a rich resource for all with an interest in Roman Catholicism, the writings have been carefully selected and edited by a team of scholars with historical, theological, and literary expertise. Each author is introduced to provide context for the included extracts and the chronological arrangement of the anthology makes the volume easy to use whilst creating a fascinating overview of the modern era in English Catholic thought. The extracts comprise a wide variety writing genres; sermons, prayers, poetry, diaries, novels, theology, apologetics, works of controversy, devotional literature, biographies, drama, and essays. Includes writings by:John Colet, John FishTrade Reviewbeautiful anthology * Catholic Times *This Oxford anthology is... not only a major event in publishing, but a rich and welcome resource... The editors have put us in their debt by providing so much to surprise and delight, and deepen our appreciation of a rich inherited tradition * Eamon Duffy, The Tablet *This volume brings together a large number of inspirational texts ... The putting together of this anthology has obviously been a labour of love. ... Anyone who wants a thumbnail sketch of the inner story of the English Catholic literature would do well to read in their totality the three historicaloverviews which introduce the main sub-divisions of the book. * Aidan Nichols, Catholic Herald *Table of ContentsPART 1: 1483-1688; PART 2: 1688 - 1850; PART 3: 1850 1999
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