The Oxford Book of Flexible Carols is the perfect resource for choirs of all types & sizes. Each piece is presented with flexible scoring options clearly explained throughout enabling performance by various combinations of singers. With carols for Advent Christmas New Year & Epiphany & a fabulous range of accessible quality material this is a must-have collection for all choirs at Christmas. ...

This collection of short stories including many new translations is the first to span the whole of Japans modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate & 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 & the current writings reflecting the pitfalls & paradoxes of modern life this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story. Various indigenous traditions in addition to those drawn from the West recur throughout the stories: stories of the self of the Water Trade (Tokyos nightlife of geishas & prostitutes) of social comment love & obsession legends & fairytales. This collection

Includes:: the work of two Nobel prize-winners: Kawabata & Oe the talented women writers Hirabayashi Euchi Okamoto & Hayashi together with the acclaimed Tanizaki Mishima & Murakami. The introduction by Theodore Goossen gives insight into these exotic & enigmatic sometimes disturbing stories derived from the lyrical roots of Japanese literature with its distinctive stress on atmosphere & beauty.

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Philip Larkins Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy & dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman & W.H. Auden it was also considered a quirky & idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine & wide-ranging selection of modern verse valuable not least because it reflects the tastes of one of the best & best-loved English poets of the twentieth century. As the successor to W.B. Yeatss Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 this anthology made a radical re-assessment of the centurys achievement in poetry; it represented verse that was lighter in tone more understated more casual more conversational more colloquial in a way more democratic & more domestic than it was for Yeats. It also introduced many little-known poets whose names have not entered the canon & whose contributions add colour & depth to the anthology. As Philip Larkin writes in his Preface in choosing poems rather than individuals he has brought together poems that will give pleasure to their readers both separately & as a collection. For this latest reissue the poets biographer Andrew Motion has written a new Foreword in which he considers the nature of Larkin as editor. ...

The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out & violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death & what lay beyond it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural & literary fabric of the age as imperial confidence the best of them still retain their original power to surprise & unsettle. The editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century & demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S. Le Fanu & M. R. James this selection also emphasizes the key role played by women writers
- Elizabeth Gaskell Mrs Craik Rhoda Broughton & Charlotte Riddell among many others
- & offers one or two genuine rarities for the supernatural fiction enthusiast to savour. Other writers represented include Charles Dickens Henry James Wilkie Collins Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & R. L. Stevenson. The editors also provide a fascinating introduction detailed source notes & a chronological list of ghost stories collections from 1850 to 1910.

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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems in Jon Stallworthy's classic & celebrated anthology span centuries of human experience of war from David's Lament for Saul & Jonathan & Homer's Iliad to the finest poems of the First & Second World Wars & beyond. Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron Hardy Owen Sassoon & Heaney they chart a great shift in human awareness
- from man's early celebratory 'war-songs' to the twentieth century's darker poetic responses to 'man's inhumanity to man'.
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If you love a good story then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure & return to again & again. When five children go exploring in the gravel pit they never expect to find ' It'.. .a Psammead who can grant them one wish per day. But this grumpy old S&-fairy has to be in the right mood to grant wishes & as the children discover having your wishes come true may sound like fun but can actually turn into a whole heap of trouble.. . This charming tale is the latest addition to the Oxford Children's Classics series from the author of The Railway Children. ...

The Oxford Children's Dictionary is illustrated in colour & aimed at readers at KS2 YR3-6 & P4-7 fo Scotl&. BL20 000 colour headwords BL150 colour illustrations BLPronunciation guides for difficult words eg. guerilla ricochet BLInformation on word origins eg. rickshaw BLNo confusing abbreviations
- word classes (parts of speech) & inflections written in full BLUsage help to encourage accurate of language BLUp-to-date example sentences & phrases show how words are used in context BLUseful introduction & key on how to get the best out of the dictionary
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With thousands of words from a variety of topics the new Oxford Children's French-English Visual Dictionary gives students learning & using French the best reading & writing support. It contains a range of topics grouped under main headings such as People & Homes Food & Clothing School & Work Sport & Leisure Art Music & Entertainment Transport Animals & Plants Planet Earth & the Environment & Space. Each topic

Includes:: a short introductory text given in both French & English plus over 20 bright modern illustrations labelled in both French & English. There are over 1500 illustrations throughout. The illustrations feature engaging children characters & the topics are familiar & appropriate to the primary curriculum. Introductions to the language & how to get the most out of the dictionary along with pages on opposites numbers time & calendar words plus full indexes in both French & English make this Dictionary easy & fun to use.

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The whole of human history is here from the earliest settlement of the world to the beginning of the new millennium in one sumptuously illustrated & easy to use volume. The essential events of world history are easy to find because each subject is given its own double page spread. Substantial coverage of each subject is given in the lively narrative text from a top author of history books for children backed by a team of expert consultants. This is a new edition with a new cover design & updated text. ...

By far the largest & most up-to-date single-volume English-Chinese & Chinese-English dictionary available & endorsed by academics worldwide the Oxford Chinese Dictionary has been designed both for English speakers learning Mandarin Chinese & Mandarin Chinese speakers learning English. It has been produced using the latest lexicographic methods & the unique dictionary resources of Oxford University Press in Oxford & Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press in Beijing together with an international body of expert advisors. The Oxford Chinese Dictionary contains over 300 000 words & phrases & 370 000 translations including the latest vocabulary from computing business the media & the arts & tens of thousands of example phrases illustrating key points of construction & usage. There are over 300 cultural notes giving essential information about many aspects of life & culture in the Chinese- & English-speaking worlds. The dictionary is based throughout on corpus research for both English & Chinese providing up-to-date evidence on real language. The English is based on the Oxford English Corpus & the Chinese draws on the LIVAC corpus from the City University of Hong Kong. Extensive supplementary material

Includes:: sample letters & emails guides to telephoning & text messaging in both Chinese & English chronologies of Chinese history & culture & features on particularly difficult aspects of the Chinese language such as kinship terms & measure words. There are also over 50 pages of lexical & usage notes which contain helpful extra information about Chinese & English. The organization & layout have been designed for maximum clarity & accessibility. All Chinese headwords & compounds are shown with Pinyin transcriptions so that the learner of Chinese can pronounce each one correctly. Chinese headwords are given in Simplified Chinese characters but Traditional Chinese character versions are also given in brackets after the headwords when they differ from the Simplified form. All the English headwords are also shown with phonetics so that the learner of English can pronounce each one correctly. The Chinese-English section of the dictionary is organised alphabetically by Pinyin & there is also a radical index which means that you can look up a character without knowing its Pinyin form. 12 months' access to Oxford's online dictionary service
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online*
- is included with this book. The site is regularly updated with the latest new words & meanings from Oxford's language research programme the Oxford Languages Tracker. You can also hear audio pronunciations & improve your language skills with online cultural notes guides to writing & much more. This ground-breaking dictionary is an indispensable reference for any serious student of Chinese & English as well as academics professionals & translators. * Chinese language only. Based on the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary.



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