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It is world-renowned for its dictionaries as well as other books, largely academic in nature. It also publishes the Oxford World's Classics series. Other publishing companies based in the city include David Fickling Books, notable as the first bi-continental publisher of children's books.
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. [ 1] The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy.
The Clerk of Oxenford The Canterbury Tales. Simon Cormack The Negotiator. Frasier Crane Frasier. Thomas Crown The Thomas Crown Affair. Dick Diver (Rhodes Scholar) Tender Is the Night. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. Robert Elsmere by Mrs Humphry Ward. Kivrin Engle Doomsday Book. Gervase Fen (the fictional St Christopher's) by Edmund Crispin.
Loss and Gain. Loss and Gain by St John Henry Newman tells the story of the conversion of Charles Reding, an Oxford student, to Catholicism. In the novel, Newman creates the following colleges: Saint Saviour's (the college of the main character, Charles Reding) All Saints. Leicester College. Nun's Hall.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella -length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. [ 1][ 2] The novel-length version was published in April 1891. The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil ...
Commander James Bond CMG RNVR is a character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books— The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) and Octopussy and ...
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution is a 2022 novel of speculative fiction by R. F. Kuang and set in 1830s England. . Thematically similar to The Poppy War, Kuang's first book series, the book criticizes British imperialism, capitalism, and the complicity of academia in perpetuating and enabling th
Text. Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.