Archive for the 'OWC' Category

Tennyson in The Quickening Maze

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

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

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

Dickens’s Christmas Books: The Battle of Life

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

The Federalist Papers: America Then and Now

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

Jane Austen: A Literary Anecdote

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 [...]

Oxford goes to The Bookseller Retail Awards 2008

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

So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy: The Answers

The answers to yesterday’s Thomas Hardy quiz.

So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?

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

Oxford World’s Classic Quiz: The Answers

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

Oxford World’s Classics Quiz: Part Five

The last set of questions in the OWC Quiz.

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