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The new Oxford book of English prose
Provides a representative selection of work by major prose-writers in the English language, drawn from throughout five centuries. 'Arranged chronologically.
| Formato: | Printed Book |
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| Idioma: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| 245 | |a The new Oxford book of English prose |c edited by John Gross. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 1998. | ||
| 300 | |a xli, 1012 p. : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm | ||
| 500 | |a Provides a representative selection of work by major prose-writers in the English language, drawn from throughout five centuries. 'Arranged chronologically. | ||
| 505 | |a Morte Darthur / Sir Thomas Malory -- The game and play of the chess / William Caxton -- Foissart's Chronicles / John Bourchier, Lord Berners -- The ways to perfect religion / John Fisher -- Utopia ; The history of King Richard III / Sir Thomas More -- An homily of good works / Thomas Cranmer -- The book named the governor / Sir Thomas Elyot -- 'The sermon of the plough' / Hugh Latimer -- Translation of the Pentateuch: prologue to Leviticus / William Tyndale -- The life of Sir Thomas More / William Roper -- Thomas Wolsey, late Cardinal, his life and death / George Cavendish -- A supplication for the beggars / Simon Fish -- The book of common prayer -- Toxophilus ; The schoolmaster / Roger Ascham -- Chronicles / Raphael Holinshed -- Erasmus' The praise of folly / Sir Thomas Chaloner -- A survey of London / John Stow -- Speech to the troops at Tilbury / Queen Elizabeth I -- Plutarch's Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Sir Thomas North -- The Christian directory / Robert Parsons -- The general history of the Turks / Richard Knolles -- A view of the present state of Ireland / Edmund Spenser -- The fight about the Isles of Azores ; The discovery of Guiana ; The history of the world / Sir Walter Raleigh --Principal navigaitons, voyages, traffics and discoveries / Richard Hakluyt -- The essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne / John Florio -- Euphues and his England / John Lyly -- The school of abuse / Stephen Gosson -- Arcadia ; The defence of poesy / Sir Philip Sidney -- Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity / Richard Hooker -- The life of Sir Philip Sidney / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Fantasticks / Nicholas Breton -- A quip for an upstart courtier ; Greene's Groats-worth of wit / Robert Greene -- Rosalynde / Thomas Lodge -- Oxford peerage case / Sir Ranulph Crewe -- The new-found land of Virginia / Thomas Hariot -- 'The student's prayer' ; The advancement of learning ; 'Of truth' ; 'Of parents and children' ; New Atlantis / Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans. A defence of rhyme / Samuel Daniel -- A midsummer night's dream ; 1 Henry IV ; Henry V ; As you like it ; Hamlet ; All's well that ends well ; King Lear ; Coriolanus / William Shakespeare -- Observations in the art of English poesy / Thomas Campion -- Pierce Penniless ; The terrors of the night ; Christ's tears over Jerusalem ; The unfortunate traveller ; Nashe's Lenten stuff / Thomas Nashe -- The seven deadly sins of London ; The gull's hornbook / Thomas Dekker -- The Enlish Bible -- Sermons ; Devotions upon emergent occasions / John Donne -- Timber, or discoveries / Ben Jonson -- Purchas his pilgrimage / Samuel Purchas -- The anatomy of melancholy / Robert Burton -- The general history of Virginia / John Smith -- Human nature ; Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- 'A model of Christian charity' / John Winthrop -- Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- The life of Dr. John Donne ; The compleat angler ; The life of Mr. George Herbert / Izaak Walton -- Of Reformation in England ; Animadversions upon the remonstrant's defence ; The reason of Church government ; Areopagitica ; The history of Britain ; The ready and easy way to establish a free commonwealth / John Milton -- Grace abounding ; The Pilgrim's progress ; The Holy War ; The Pilgrim's progress, Part II / John Bunyan -- Diary / Samuel Pepys -- No cross, no crown / William Penn -- Robinson Crusoe ; Serious reflections during the life of Robinson Crusoe ; A Journal of the Plague Year ; Moll flanders ; A tour through the whole island of Great Britain / Daniel Defoe -- Magnalia Christi Americana ; Manuductio ad ministerium / Cotton Mather -- A tale of a tub ; An argument against abolishing Christianity ; Gulliver's travels ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Journal / John Wesley -- A divine and supernatural light ; Personal narrative ; Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards -- Autobiography ; Speech at the Constitutional Convention / Benjamin Franklin. | ||
| 520 | |a Provides a representative selection of work by major prose-writers in the English language, drawn from throughout five centuries. 'Arranged chronologically. | ||
| 650 | |2 Literary collection |v English prose literature. |z American prose literature. | ||
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