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.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
English prose literature. > American prose literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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