My First Oxford Book Of Stories
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Author |
: Geraldine McCaughrean |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192781871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192781871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis My First Oxford Book of Stories by : Geraldine McCaughrean
A perfect first book of stories for a young child. Old favourites such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Gingerbread Man are told by award winning author Geraldine McCaughrean in her own inimitable style. There is plenty of fun and humor in the re-tellings, without losing sightof the traditional shape and feel of the original stories. The illustrations by Ruby Green are a delight - finely detailed and beautifully coloured.
Author |
: Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 788 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195092627 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195092622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by : Joyce Carol Oates
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author |
: John Foster |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192763393 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192763396 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis My First Oxford Book of Poems by : John Foster
A children's collection of poetry by English poets.
Author |
: Elizabeth Fallaize |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2010-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191614927 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191614920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of French Short Stories by : Elizabeth Fallaize
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 de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Caribbean in the twentieth century. Women writers include relatively well known figures such as Renee Vivien, Colette, and Beauvoir, and newer writers such as Assia Djebar, Christiane Baroche, and Annie Saumont. The French short story is a rich and diverse medium, but all the stories selected share a common characteristic: they make exciting reading.
Author |
: Theodore William Goossen |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 486 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192803726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192803727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by : Theodore William Goossen
Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.
Author |
: Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 595 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192805560 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192805568 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Exploration by : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
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.
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: |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192781677 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192781673 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories by :
A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.
Author |
: Rebecca Treays |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 48 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199106983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199106981 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oxford First Book of Children of the World by : Rebecca Treays
Om livet for børn rundt omkring i verden. Afsnit om familier, hjem, landsbyer, storbyer, landbrug, i skole m.m. Meget kort beskrivelse af de 24 lande, der omtales. Med forslag til aktiviteter
Author |
: Iona Opie |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192801961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192801968 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse by : Iona Opie
This is a story-book, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written over the past six hundred years.Here will be found Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'; the tale of John Gilpin and of the Idiot Boy; 'The Lady of Shalott', 'The Pied Piper', and Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'. In the twentieth century the narrative tradition is exemplified by Chesterton andMasefield, Charles Causley and C. Day-Lewis, amongst others.Most of the fifty-nine poems in this collection are given in their entirety, but abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as 'The Faerie Queene' and 'Paradise Lost' add to the richness and variety.
Author |
: Antonia Susan Byatt |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192881116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192881113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of English Short Stories by : Antonia Susan Byatt
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A. S. Byatt, who has published several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to take the English short story as its theme. The thirty-seven stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, byauthors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan, though many draw ingeniously from the richness of earlier English literary writing. There are all sorts of threads of connection and contrast running through these stories. Their subjects vary from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the momentous to the trivial, from the grim to the farcical. There is English empiricism, English pragmatism, English starkness, English humour,English satire, English dandyism, English horror, and English whimsy. There are examples of social realism, from rural poverty to blitzed London; ghost stories and tales of the supernatural; surreal fantasy and science fiction. There are stories of sensibility, precisely delineated, from Hardy'sreluctant bride to the shocked heroine of Elizabeth Taylor's The Blush, from H. E. Bates's brilliant fusion of class, sex, death, and landscape, to D. H. Lawrence's exploration of a consciousness slowly detaching itself from its world. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse andFirbank, with a particularly English range from high irony to pure orchestrated farce. The very range and scope of the collection celebrates the eccentric differences and excellences of English short stories Some of A. S. Byatt's choices clearly take their place in the grand tradition of story-telling, while others are more unusual.Many break all the rules of unity of tone andnarrative, appearing to be one kind of story before unexpectedly turning into another. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject-matter. As A. S. Byatt explains: 'My only criterion was that those stories I selectedshould be startling and satisfying, and if possible make the hairs on the neck prickle with excitement, aesthetic or narrative.'