The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

A collection of English detective stories features work by Arthur Conan Doyle, Clarence Rook, R. Austin Freeman, Arthur Morrison, G.K. Chesterton, E.C. Bentley, H.C. Bailey, and many more

A collection of thirty-two stories of travel by the world's greatest writers past and present, including Edith Wharton, John Updike, Rebecca West, and Jack Kerouac, transports readers to places as far apart as the Rhine and Palestine

 H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several

Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Ireland is a country that arouses strong opinions: everyone has a view on its character, its foibles, its charms and its waywardness. It has inspired some of the best poetry and nurtured some of the best writers in the world, and in The Oxford Book of Ireland poets, novelists, artists,