Download or read book The Oxford Book of Sea Stories written by Tony Tanner and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malevolent, mysterious, vast, the ocean has always sparked our fascination and sense of adventure, giving rise to a remarkable vein of narrative deftly mined here by editor Tony Tanner. In the twenty-seven tales of The Oxford Book of the Sea, masters of the art tell of men on ships, grappling with themselves, their fellow sailors, and the trials of the sea: from hurricane winds to the frustrating calm, from swirling currents to rampaging whales. Here is the work of Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, C.S. Forester, Ernest Hemingway, and of course Conrad. Along with the essential stories come unexpected gems by writers not known for their seafaring bent such as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, and Edgar Allan Poe. Some of the finest writers in the English language have been drawn to the subject of life at sea, with its dangers, loneliness, and triumphs. The Oxford Book of the Sea gathers together some of the best examples of the form, offering moving prose, fascinating insight into the human condition, and the simple pleasure of tales of high adventure.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Sea Stories written by Tony Tanner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven short stories. Authors Hemingway, Kipling, Masefield, E.M. Forster, Jack London and Herman Melville.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of the Sea written by Jonathan Raban and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings illustrating humans' changing vision of the sea features passages from the work of Melville, Conrad, Darwin, Dickens, E.B. White, Dickinson, and Woolf.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories written by Stewart Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection extends beyond the realm of English-speaking writers, to include stories published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. It brings together contributions from major figures such as V. S. Naipaul, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and work from the exciting new generation of Caribbean writers represented by Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Sea Songs written by Roy Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories written by T. A. Shippey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'So you won't sell me your soul?' said the Devil. 'Thank you,' replied the student, 'I had rather keep it myself, if it's all the same to you.' So begins this rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories. Figures such as the devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons have long been part of the human psyche, and the authors of these marvellous tales draw upon this deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. With thirty-one tales by writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of the Sea written by Jonathan Raban and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inveterate sailor and bestselling author of Hunting Mister Heartbreak Jonathan Raban has compiled a remarkable anthology of our changing visions of the sea--a rich treasury of writings as varied and enthralling as the ocean itself. Arranged chronologically and spanning everything from Anglo-Saxon poetry to modern oceanography.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Detective Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of French Short Stories written by Elizabeth Fallaize and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book South Sea Tales written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories written by Tom Shippey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Story of Land and Sea written by Katy Simpson Smith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love. Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father’s stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never knew. Since the loss of his wife Helen, John has remained land-bound for their daughter, but when Tab contracts yellow fever, he turns to the sea once more. Desperate to save his daughter, he takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda, hoping the salt air will heal her. Years before, Helen herself was raised by a widowed father. Asa, the devout owner of a small plantation, gives his daughter a young slave named Moll for her tenth birthday. Left largely on their own, Helen and Moll develop a close but uneasy companionship. Helen gradually takes over the running of the plantation as the girls grow up, but when she meets John, the pirate turned Continental soldier, she flouts convention and her father’s wishes by falling in love. Moll, meanwhile, is forced into marriage with a stranger. Her only solace is her son, Davy, whom she will protect with a passion that defies the bounds of slavery. In this elegant, evocative, and haunting debut, Katy Simpson Smith captures the singular love between parent and child, the devastation of love lost, and the lonely paths we travel in the name of renewal.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Dreams written by Stephen Brook and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Review from previous edition A rich fabric of dreaming... from Latin poets to Louis MacNiece and Yeats... A truly remarkable assembly' -Elizabeth Jennings, Spectator'a splendid collection... Stephen Brook could hardly have done the job better' -Rosemary Dinnage, TLS'an ideal companion for the bedside' -Time'Anthologies which transcend themselves and can stand as organic books making serious statements about life [are] very rare, but Stephen Brook's Oxford Book of Dreams is of their number.' -Paul Binding, New Statesman
Download or read book Eurekas and Euphorias written by Walter Gratzer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Children s Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My First Oxford Book of Poems written by John Foster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's collection of poetry by English poets.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Bible Stories written by Berlie Doherty and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a collection of some of the most powerful and wonderful stories from the Old Testament. We can trace the lives of memorable Biblical characters across the generations including Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Ruth, Saul and David. Their lives are played out in turbulent times - and the drama of great floods, plagues, journeys, and battles is revealed to us through stories that have been retold with spirit and originality by Berlie Doherty. From this epic sweep, Berlie Doherty's narrative draws out the emotions of real men and women: their hopes and fears, grief and joy, fulfilment and suffering, compassion and betrayal. Berlie Doherty brings us to an understanding of the promises that these people keep and the mistakes they make. Through all this we discover more about God and our faith in him. Fully illustrated throughout by Jason Cockcroft with both sumptuous colour and evocative black and white artwork, this collection of Bible stories is a book to cherish.
