“I love the night passionately” An excerpt from Paris Tales
An excerpt from Guy de Maupassant’s short story ‘A Nightmare’.
An excerpt from Guy de Maupassant’s short story ‘A Nightmare’.
A ghostly excerpt from Mother Leakey and the Bishop
An excerpt from Scott’s Journals to mark International Polar Year
John Mullan, author of How Novels Work, poses some literary brainteasers.
An excerpt from the introduction to The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies.
In time for Burns Night, here is everything you need to know about the history of Burns Clubs.
Congratulations to the NBCC nominees.
In recent years, climbing Everest has become something of an industry, and today when I learned of Sir Edmund Hillary’s death at the age of 88, in his native New Zealand, I marvelled at his extraordinary accomplishment. ‘High Adventure’ is one of my favorite books – both unforgiving, and exciting.
Judith Luna, Commissioning Editor of the Oxford World’s Classics, tells us about the European premiere of Sweeney Todd.
The staff at OUP-UK tell you about their favourite books of 2007
A look at Faustus translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Do you see any similarities between Beowulf and any particular modern day hero?
Which do you think of changing the endings to literary masterpieces?
Andrew Varhol helps us explore Beowulf.
Links to Kindle reports.
Kindle has arrived! Evan Schnittman reviews the new ereader for us.