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Tennyson in The Quickening Maze

Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Poetry & Prose & UK | October 1, 2009

Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character

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The Legacy of Harper’s Magazine, William Dean Howells
and Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer

Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Current Events & Leisure & Literature & OWC & Prose | July 20, 2009

John R. MacArthur gives us a preview of Tuesday’s Bryant Park Reading Room discussion.

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Dickens’s Christmas Books: The Battle of Life

Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | December 18, 2008

An excerpt from one of Charles Dickens’s Christmas books, ‘The Battle of Life’.

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The Federalist Papers: America Then and Now

Filed in A-Featured & American History & Current Events & History & OWC & Politics & UK & VSI | October 23, 2008

Lawrence Goldman discusses why The Federalist Papers are still relevent today.

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Jane Austen: A Literary Anecdote

Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | October 1, 2008

One of my personal favourite new releases this season in the UK is the paperback edition of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross. I could have chosen any one of hundreds of great anecdotes from and about authors I love, but in the end I decided to share with you this [...]

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Oxford goes to The Bookseller Retail Awards 2008

Filed in A-Featured & Business & Current Events & OWC & UK | September 24, 2008

OUP UK’s Coleen Hatrick blogs from The Bookseller Retail Awards 2008.

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So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy: The Answers

Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | August 7, 2008

The answers to yesterday’s Thomas Hardy quiz.

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So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?

Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & Prose & UK | August 6, 2008

See how much you know about Thomas Hardy with our tricky questions.

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Oxford World’s Classic Quiz: The Answers

Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & UK | April 25, 2008

The answers to this week’s Oxford World’s Classics Quiz

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Oxford World’s Classics Quiz: Part Five

Filed in A-Featured & Literature & OWC & UK | April 25, 2008

The last set of questions in the OWC Quiz.

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