Presents the complete text of the New Revised Standard Version Bible, with the Aprocryphal/Deuterocanonical books; and features annotations in a single column across the page bottom, in-text background essays on the major divisions of the ...

Now, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, edited by Stewart Brown and John Wickham, brings together fifty-two stories in a major anthology representing over a century's worth of pan-Caribbean short fiction.

An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors.

A study of The Sacred Books of the East, a fifty-volume series of translations of Asian religious writings edited by the German-born philologist and scholar of religions, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), and published by Oxford University ...

This book tells the first story of the life and works for Scott Joplin. In its expanded second edition, the book goes far beyond the original publication in uncovering details of the composer's life and insights into his music.

A young orphaned boy is suddenly taken out of poverty and squalor and raised to be a gentleman.

An anthology of writings illustrating humans' changing vision of the sea features passages from the work of Melville, Conrad, Darwin, Dickens, E.B. White, Dickinson, and Woolf.

This wide-ranging collection of stories will prove absorbing and thoroughly entertaining readingfor anyone with an interest in the sea and its literature.