Up At Oxford

Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0195218892

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Oxford English Dictionary by John A. Simpson Pdf

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

Author : Ved Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241504956

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Up at Oxford by Ved Mehta Pdf

Book 2 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta. After studying in the United States, Mehta - blind since childhood - achieves his dream of enrolling at the University of Oxford: a place that has consumed his imagination ever since he was a small boy growing up under the British Raj. In Up at Oxford, Mehta recalls the nuances of his conversations, the range of his youthful emotions, and the sounds, smells, and tastes of university life. Along the way he draws memorable portraits of, among others, novelists, poets, scholars, and peers.

Author : Andrea Kayne Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Death
ISBN : 0984675108

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Oxford Messed Up by Andrea Kayne Kaufman Pdf

Oxford Messed Up is a unique literary love story that transports readers on a meaningful and emotional journey where the academic world of Oxford, the music of Van Morrison, and an old claw-foot bathtub serve as a backdrop for learning, self-discovery, and transcendent love. Rhodes Scholar Gloria Zimmerman is an academic superstar who has come to Oxford University to study feminist poetry. Yet the rigors of the academy pale in comparison to her untreated Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, fueled by her overachieving parents and manifested in a deathly aversion to germs and human contact. Her next-door neighbor (who is also, to her mortification, her loomate) is Henry Young, the appealing but underachieving musician son of an overbearing and disapproving Oxford don. Still mourning the death of his supportive mother while enduring the mockery of his disapproving and merciless father, Henry is haunted by the unexpectedly serious ramifications of a reckless and tragic youth. Gloria and Henry's relationship evolves from a shared obsession with Van Morrison's music into a desire on the part of each to fill in the gaps in the life of the other. Yet the constraints of a debilitating illness and the looming revelation of a catastrophic secret conspire to throw their worlds into upheaval and threaten the possibilities of their unlikely yet redemptive love.

Author : Patrick Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : English language
ISBN : 0194106128

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Everybody Up by Patrick Jackson Pdf

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Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192142216

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The Oxford Book of Exile by John Simpson Pdf

From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. The emphasis is on personal experience, with writers from Ovid to Solzhenitsyn describing their exile, their emotions, their struggle and their despair. For those who have chosen a life in exile, the response is more mixed: ambivalence about the country they have left and the country they have chosen suffuses the writing of intellectuals seeking freedom of speech, as of ex-pats living in India or Australia. Those persecuted for their faith or their politics rub shoulders with those fleeing from war, or from debt, or even from the weather. Castaways and spies, premiers and princes describe their departure, their reception and sometimes their return, in an anthology that is by turns inspiring, moving, and deeply thought-provoking. With sources ranging from police records, newspaper articles, interviews, letters and memoirs, as well as verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China and Palestine, The Oxford Book of Exile provides a fascinating insight into an experience that touches so many, and captures the imagination of us all.

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192512598

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The Origins of Dislike by Amit Chaudhuri Pdf

'Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's criticism disproves and questions several assumptions—that a serious and original artist cannot think critically in a way that matters; that criticism can't be imaginative, and creative work contain radical argumentation; that a writer reflecting on their own position and practice cannot be more than a testimony of their work, but open up how we think of literary history and reading. Illuminating new ways of thinking about Western and non-Western traditions, prejudices, and preconceptions, Chaudhuri shows us again that he takes nothing as a given: literary tradition, the prevalent definitions of writing and culture; and the way the market determines the way culture and language express themselves. He asks us to look again at what we mean by the modern, and how it might be possible to think of the literary today.

Author : Ved Mehta
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Blind
ISBN : 0393035441

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Up at Oxford by Ved Mehta Pdf

The history of a generation is recalled as the author remembers his elation and fear upon acceptance at Oxford and reflects on his year there and the extraordinary classmates whom he watched emerge onto the world scene.

Author : D. J. Enright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199556526

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The Oxford Book of Death by D. J. Enright Pdf

The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside these 'professional' writers, he allows the voices of ordinary people to be heard; for this is a subject on which there are no real experts and wisdom lies in many unexpected places.

Author : John M. Prest
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Oxford (England)
ISBN : 0198201583

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The Illustrated History of Oxford University by John M. Prest Pdf

This richly illustrated book traces the story of Oxford University from its origins in the Middle Ages to the present day. Written by a team of scholars, all authorities in their fields, it spans 800 years of learning and incident to give a uniquely authoritative history of the University for the general reader. Since the Middle Ages, Oxford University's part in learning has always been significant and colourful. Many future leaders of the nation have been educated there. The architecture of the University and colleges has become one of the glories of Europe, and its libraries and museums house a number of major collections. But most importantly, a university must be judged by its attachment to scholarship - a theme which runs throughout this book. Students have been drawn to Oxford from all over the world, and today the University is internationally recognized for its contribution to research, both in the sciences and in the liberal arts. Authoritative, scholarly, and informative, this book captures the richness and diversity of Oxford University, and its contribution to the nation and to the world. In addition to over 200 illustrations, including 24 full-colour plates, specifically chosen to complement the wide-ranging text, there are also 5 maps, a chronology, annotated guides to further reading, and a full index.

Author : Tom Shippey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192803816

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The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories by Tom Shippey Pdf

A collection of classic science fiction short stories features tales by H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clark, Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Brian Aldiss, Ursala K. LeGuin, and many others. Edited by the author of The Road to Middle-Earth. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Maudie Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192758712

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The Dressing-Up Dad by Maudie Smith Pdf

Danny LOVES dressing up. So does Danny's DAD! Whether it is pirates at a party or superheroes in the supermarket, they'll dress up anywhere, at any time, whatever the occasion. A brilliantly funny and uplifting celebration of dads and the importance of being yourself! Perfect for kids aged 2+, this gorgeously illustrated picture book from the much loved illustrator of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark is the perfect gift to share on Father's Day!

Author : Rob Alcraft
Publisher : Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops inFact
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Headgear
ISBN : 0198306474

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Heads Up!, Level 10 by Rob Alcraft Pdf

Take a look at hats, wigs and masks throughout history in Heads Up!. TreeTops inFact is an exciting non-fiction series for children aged 711. Its range of subjects and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will love.

Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106012344088

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The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse by Neil Philip Pdf

An anthology of poetry written for children.

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Penguin Random House India
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789386495105

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Friend of My Youth by Amit Chaudhuri Pdf

A writer arrives in Bombay on a book-related visit, and finds himself in search of the city he grew up in and barely knows, a city shaken to its core not long ago by the 2008 terrorist strikes-even as he takes for granted his errant local friend, Ramu. A six-foot-tall Kannadiga and one-time junkie who cannot reconcile himself to modern-day adult life, Ramu is an unlikely hero, Bombay incarnate; the writer is his mirrored counterpart in an extraordinary narrative about this city by the sea. Friend of My Youth is at once an unexpected exploration and a concentrated reminiscence woven around a series of visits to a city that was never really home; a commentary on the power of memory and the stubborn interference of childhood with adult life; a paean to the transformative power of friendship by one of our greatest living writers.

Author : Maitreyee B. Chowdhury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bengali poetry
ISBN : 0670090859

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The Hungryalists by Maitreyee B. Chowdhury Pdf