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This combined dictionary contains 30,000 entries covering commonly used English and Japanese words and expressions. Guidance is offered on grammar, meaning, orthography, pronunciation and punctuation. It also includes furigana transcription...

The pilgrimage of American writers to Paris began with Henry James over a century ago, and has continued in waves ever since. This book is not concerned with the "lost...

To many, Patrick O'Brian was the greatest British novelist of the twentieth century. The fifteen volumes of the series set in the Royal Navy of the beginning of the nineteenth...

This collection opens up a new field of academic and general interest- Australian medievalism. That is, the heritage and continuing influence of medieval and gothic themes, ideas and cultural practices....

Paper Windows is an outstanding and very popular selection of short short stories. Through these entertaining stories and the exercises and activities which follow, students and teachers can quickly and...

'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak...

All the words you need, every day: the perfect dictionary for daily use, including all the words, phrases and definitions you need. Language notes will help you choose the right...

Though he often wrote in matchless prose, Ruskin's thought developed slowly and sometimes repetitively. His ideas, if we come to them unprepared, can seem obscure, confused, and difficult to grasp....

Sean O' Casey's Irish plays, among them "Juno and the Paycock", arguably place him amongst the great playwrights of the 20th century. This book explores the myth of O'Casey's slum...

One golden summer afternoon in 1862, on the banks of the River Thames, the young Oxford mathematics don Charles Dodgson shared a picnic with three little girls, who asked for...

This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each...

A lively and insightful literary life, highly acclaimed on hardback publicationVirginia Woolf once mused that no biographer had ever been 'subtle enough and bold enough to present that queer amalgam...

Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the...

Comprehensive and authoritative, and ideal for advanced learners of German, Collins German Dictionary is now available in colour and with all the new German spellings. Now in colour, and with...

A delightful novella from the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance Thirty-three-year-old Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American television foreign correspondent. War-weary and exhausted after a long stint...

The Macquarie Concise Dictionary contains: 48,000 headwords 119,000 definitions over 5000 encyclopedic entries on people and places of Australian and international significance new words of contemporary English, in particular those...

Frank Hardy is perhaps Australia's most famous Communist writer. In his literary biography on Frank Hardy, author Paul Adams traces the relationship between Hardy's writings, his political activism and the...

Collects twenty-four selections from classic children's stories, including "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "The Wizard of Oz," and "Charlotte's Web.".

Trisha Todd, the actress who starred in the classic lesbian film, Claire of the Moon presents an account of her own intimate journey to herself. With honesty and insight, she...

Enjoy the world of the LEGO (R) Movie with this Level 1 Reader LEGO (R) Movie Calling All Master Builders! is a brand new book introducing readers to the LEGO...

The Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary gives you the most complete and up-to-date translations from English to Tagalog/Filipino and is the most current dictionary available today. Designed primarily for English speakers,...

For over seventy years, Enid Blyton's books have delighted her readers. Enid Blyton wrote more than 700 books. Fully revised edition of this comprehensive and light-hearted A-Z of Enid Blyton...

Punctuation can make all the difference between a good piece of writing and a superb piece of writing. In The Art of Punctuation, Noah Lukeman explores and demystifies each punctuation...

This edition of the Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary offers essential coverage of Latin words and grammar, as well as extra information on Roman history and culture. It takes account of...

A bare-knuckle fighter turned moviestar, Lenny Mclean had powerful friends and terrible enemies. In this biography, he tells stories about his life, including how he knocked out the Mafia's greatest...

In Tolkien's Gown, a book based loosely on that hugely successful radio series, Rick Gekoski discusses twenty great works of modern literature as both texts and objects. At once erudite...

As a colour, black is a single hue. It comes in no other shades. It is pure darkness, absorber of all light. But despite its commonly accepted role as one...

Tracing the life of one of the most highly regarded political figures of his generation, this work presents both the public and private sides of Paine's life. It was written...

In 1954 one of the most seminal books in English literature was published and caused barely a ripple. It wasn't until the 'flower-power' generation of the 1960's that LORD OF...

A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield,...

Describes James's childhood in New York in the mid-nineteenth century, his illnesses, sexual encounters, and early loves, and follows his development as a writer culminating with his masterpiece The Portrait...

The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy,...

This is one of the titles for the Oxford Literacy Web fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 & Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. The Year...

Harry Secombe''s collection of animal verse takes the reader on a riotous rampage through the wild world of the zoo. The hilarious poems are accompanied by Bill Tidy''s original illustrations.'

"The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, he explained the treatment:...

The 30th anniversary edition of Tobias Wolff's "extraordinary memoir" (SF Chronicle), now with a new introduction by the author

A classic collection; With extracts from The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows, Black Beauty and Tom's Midnight Garden; poems by writers as diverse as John Milton, Roger McGough and...

'I think one of the reasons why I was never properly domesticated is because I was actually socialised by a gang of mad women in flapping black habits' Germaine Greer....