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The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross
$55.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
This is an unrivaled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, ...Show more
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. ...Show more
The Oxford Book of Death by D.J. Enright (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Books of Prose and Verse Ser.
The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices o ...Show more
The Oxford Book of French Short Stories by Elizabeth Fallaize
$18.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis d ...Show more
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