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The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Author | : John Gross |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199543410 |
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In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Author | : James Sutherland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1407657158 |
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The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes
Author | : Donald Hall |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195033884 |
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A companion volume to The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, this volume covers the whole range of American literary history from the 17th century to the present. Taken from biographies, letters, memoirs, and table-talk, the stories form an irreverent history of American literature.
Eurekas and Euphorias
Author | : Walter Gratzer,Walter Bruno Gratzer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 019860940X |
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A collection of fascinating stories, entertainingly told, revealing the human face of science. Eurekas and Euphorias encompasses some 200 anecdotes brilliantly illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. Told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer, here are stories to delight, astonish, instruct, and most especially, entertain the general reader, scientist and non-scientist alike.
The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Author | : James Runcieman Sutherland,James Sutherland |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0192819364 |
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A collection of nearly 500 stories covering 1300 years. Includes tall tales, portraits, and anecdotes about the men and women of English letters.
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Author | : Theodore William Goossen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192803726 |
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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.
The Oxford Book of Exploration
Author | : Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192805560 |
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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 Book of American Short Stories
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0195092627 |
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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.