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Young Oxford Book of Nightmares, The
This is a collection of stories in which nightmares and bad dreams are an essential part of the plot. In some stories the nightmare parallels or predicts events in waking life. In others, the nightmare takes over and the dreamer cannot get back to reality. author: Pepper, Dennis; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Welsh Verse, The
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Oxford Book of Aphorisms, The
This title shows how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and how well the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. Sections including "Religion", "Money and Rank", "Men, Women, Marriage" and "Politics", cover the range of aphoristic literature. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Health Foods, The
This text begins with an account of modern concepts of human nutrition, followed by a series of over 100 accounts of individual health foods and dietary supplements. The evidence for the claimed therapeutic value of herbal medicines is given, and toxic effects are described author: Vaughan, J.G.; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Garden Verse, The
From Chaucer to the present day, this anthology covers a variety of topics - the formal garden to small domestic ones, gardeners, weeds, manure, fruit, vegetables and flowers, and gardens as clandestine meeting places. John Dixon Hunt also wrote "The Figure in the Landscape" and "Garden and Grove". author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Young Oxford Book of Astronomy, The
This text uses an accessible structure to describe astronomy from a modern perspective. There is a section on the history of matter, and detailed chapters describe and explain the solar system, the astronomy of stars, galaxies and cosmology. author: Mitton, Simon; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Short Stories, The
V.S. Pritchett has chosen 41 stories from nine countries written in the English language for this volume, a collection that aims to display the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. The book includes stories by authors including Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Rudyard Kipling. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Comic Verse, The
From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles - this anthology is notable for its breadth. International in scope, it brings together many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, all written to amuse. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, The
The Caribbean has produced what is arguably the most exciting body of poetry in the twentieth century, and this anthology covers all its major languages. It features a range of poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, and Olive Senior to Una Marson. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Eighteenth-century Verse, The
This anthology illustrates the kinds of verse actually written in the 18th century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, Blake and many forgotten writers. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Detective Stories, The
As well as English and American stories this anthology of dectective tales includes stories from Europe and further afield, showing how different nationalities have used the genre. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth and locked-room mysteries are all here. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, The
The gothic tale has been with us for over 200 years, and this collection aims to illustrate the continuing strength of this fictional tradition from the late 18th century to the present day. The book brings together the work of writers such as Le Fanu, Hawthorne, Hardy, Faulkner, and Borges. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of English Detective Stories, The
Every age has produced detective fiction that exemplifies its distinctive manners and customs, from early sedate tales, to the debonair detection of the 1920s, to post-World War II realism. This book offers 33 stories, from Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, to Ruth Rendell and P.D. James. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories, The
This is a selection of 31 stories from authors such as Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories include police detectives, gentlemen amateurs, lady detectives and even an "anti-detective" (who devises a crime for himself to solve). author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of French Short Stories, The
Spanning the centuries from the late 18th to the late 20th, this collection of French short stories in translation should expand our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Story Poems, The
Dragons, castles and knights; mermaids, witches and magicians; ships on the high seas and journeys into mystery. In this book of poetry for children, every poem tells a story. Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark mix well-known poems with some new surprises to create an entertaining collection which should appeal to a wide age range. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Carols, The
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Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols, The
Designed to be used either independently or in conjunction with its parent volume, "The New Oxford Book of Carols", from which this anthology is drawn. The contents have been chosen to include items of the broadest possible appeal, with a strong bias towards choral settings. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of English Madrigals, The
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Oxford Book of Scarytales, The
This is a spine-tingling collection of strange and spooky stories. There are ghosts and ghouls of course, but there are also eerie stories about the nature of fear itself. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, The
This selection of 42 stories written between 1829 and 1968 presents the full range and vitality of the English tradition of literary ghost fiction by demonstrating its historical development as well as its major themes and characteristics. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Young Oxford Book of War Stories, The
Out of the hundreds of wars that ravaged the 20th century, the three wars covered in this book (both World Wars and Vietnam) were the longest and blackest, lasting, in total, 20 years and killing nearly 100,000,000 people. The stories and poems are from all nationalities, men, women and children. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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My First Oxford Book of Animal Poems
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Oxford Book of Travel Stories, The
Travel, associated as it is with strangeness, marvels and excitement, has always proved an irresistible subject for writers. This collection brings together short fiction on this most exhilarating of subjects from writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton and Beryl Bainbridge. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of English Short Stories, The
The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries. They range from Dickens and Hardy to J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter, though many draw from the richness of earlier works. Their subjects range from humour to horror and from the sublime to the farcical. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of English Love Stories, The
The 28 stories in this collection reflect something of the infinite diversity of English love, with authors as varied as Sylvia Plath and Aphra Behn, Thomas Hardy and V.S. Pritchett, D.H. Lawrence and Adam Mars-Jones. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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My First Oxford Book of Stories
A volume of first stories for young children. Old favourites such as "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and "The Gingerbread Man" are retold by Geraldine McCaughrean in her own style with fun and humour, without losing the traditional feel of the original stories. author: McCaughrean, Geraldine; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Young Oxford Book of Train Stories, The
A collection of stories which celebrate the fascination of trains and railways - stories of danger and menace, stories of happiness and laughter, spy stories, love stories, murder stories, and, most of all, ghost stories. Many of the tales were specially commissioned; others are classics. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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My First Oxford Book of Animal Poems
An illustrated collection of animal poems for young children. Organized thematically, it takes the reader on a journey through the animal kingdom - from around the house, to the forest, fields and far beyond. author: Foster, John; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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My First Oxford Book of Poems
This volume introduces young children to traditional poetry and high quality modern poems. The themes are animals, weather and seasons, bedtime, fantasy, and nonsense. The poets vary from Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Longfellow, through Rossetti, Lawrence and Farjeon, to Causley, Milligan and Hughes. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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My First Oxford Book of Christmas Poems
This volume contains poems about everything you can think of to do with Christmas - from decorations to food, from parties to presents, and of course, the real reason for the celebrations. It includes contributions from A.A. Milne, Tony Mitton, Berlie Doherty and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. author: Foster, John; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories, The
This is a collection of stories about time, exploring the different ways we can twist and play with it. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, and more. author: Pepper, Dennis; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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My First Oxford Book of Poems
This title introduces young children to the world of traditional poetry and high quality modern poems. The themes are animals, weather and seasons, bedtime, fantasy, and nonsense. The poets vary from Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Longfellow, through Rossetti, Lawrence and Farjeon, to Causley, Milligan and Hughes. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, The
Throughout the 19th century fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it. This collection includes stories by J.S. Le Fanu, M.R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Wilkie Collins. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, The
A great age of poetry speaks for itself in this anthology which reveals the variety and power of Victorian verse, and the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. Verse is included from Tennyson, Rossetti, Hardy and Browning. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse, The
A selection of English verse from the period 1785 to 1832, one of the most fertile for English writing. Poets include Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Burns, Shelley and Keats. There are also examples of the other kinds of verse of the era: political and satirical, regional and dialect, and translations. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, The
A collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflecting the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. With tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this adult anthology should appeal to the child within. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, The
In this collection, Frank Muir guides the reader on a journey through five centuries of humorous prose in the English language. The extracts are embedded in a commentary that sets the writers in their historical context with items of contemporary gossip and anecdotal biography. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Death, The
This anthology includes not only professional writers for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and lay voices insist on being heard alongside those of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Sonnets, The
The sonnet is one of the best-loved and most versatile of poetic forms, alive and well after over 450 years in English. Beginning with Wyatt and ending in the present day, this collection juxtaposes old favourites with the less familiar. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Young Oxford Book of Sports Stories, The
Like nothing else, sport today is international. So this book of stories and poems, from a group of international authors, contains a wide range of games played in all English-speaking countries: ice hockey as well as swimming and wrestling, baseball as well as soccer and boxing. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford Book of Essays, The
The essay is one of the richest literary forms, with its characteristics of freedom, informality and the personal touch. These qualities, and others, are displayed in this collection of 140 essays by 120 writers, covering topics from anger, Gandhi and party-going to wasps and Beethoven. author: ; publisher: Oxf.U.P.
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse
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OUP Canada The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (PBK)
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OUP Canada Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English
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OUP Australia and New Zealand The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories
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Oxford University Press Inc, USA The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories
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OUP Australia and New Zealand The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
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Oxford University Press The New Oxford Book of American Verse
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Spirituals
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Oxford University Press Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ
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Oxford Paperbacks The Oxford Book of French Short Stories
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Oxford Paperbacks The Oxford Book of Essays (Oxford Books of Prose S.)
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Oxford Paperbacks The Oxford Book of Comic Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
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Oxford Paperbacks The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Italian Madrigals
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford Books of Prose S.)
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems: 34 Anthems for Mixed Voices
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Oxford University Press The Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Christmas Organ Music
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of English Madrigals
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of French Chansons
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Oxford Paperbacks The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-century Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
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Oxford Paperbacks The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (Oxford Books of Prose S.)
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Exploration (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse S.)
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Oxford Paperbacks The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Book of Short Poems
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