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Written in 1867, The English Constitution is generally accepted to be the best account of the history and working of the British political system ever written. As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote, and democracies overseas were pitched into despotism and civil war, Bagehot took a long, cool look at the ‘dignified’ and ‘efficient’ elements which made the English system the envy of the world.
Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels offer many fascinating parallels with today’s political scene, none more so than the fifth novel in the sequence, The Prime Minister. Nicholas Shrimpton, of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will be editing the new edition of the novel for Oxford World’s Classics (out next year). His profile of Trollope’s fictional hero, Plantagenet Palliser, finds some uncanny resemblances between fiction and reality.
An excerpt from 1888’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, recently reprinted in the Oxford World’s Classics series.
Some snowy excerpts from classic literature to suit Oxford’s current climate.
A look at the original reviews of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The second batch of UK book bloggers talk about their favourite books.
Tennyson expert Adam Roberts reviews The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which features Tennyson as a main character
An excerpt from one of Charles Dickens’s Christmas books, ‘The Battle of Life’.
Lawrence Goldman discusses why The Federalist Papers are still relevent today.
OUP UK’s Coleen Hatrick blogs from The Bookseller Retail Awards 2008.
The answers to yesterday’s Thomas Hardy quiz.
See how much you know about Thomas Hardy with our tricky questions.
The answers to this week’s Oxford World’s Classics Quiz
The last set of questions in the OWC Quiz.
Day Four of the Oxford World’s Classics Quiz.
The third part of the week-long Oxford World’s Classics Quiz.