Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
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Category: Bodleian Library
Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns’ poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the Mississippi, fictional friends have supported, guided, comforted, nursed and at times betrayed ...Show more
Kafka Journal by Bodleian Library
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Category: Bodleian Library
Franz Kafka is best known as the author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle. Although he died before he had reached the age of forty, his groundbreaking work has left a profound cultural legacy and continues to influence writers and artists today.Kafka was a highly visual writer and he often ...Show more
Tolkien: Treasures by Catherine McIlwaine
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Category: Bodleian Library
This beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien's childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World War to his studies at school and university, from his exquisite illustrations for The Silmarillion, The ...Show more
The Book Lovers' Miscellany by COCK-STARKEY, CLAIRE
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Category: Bodleian Library
How is ink made? What is the bestselling book of all time? What are the oldest known books in the world? And how does one make sense of the colors found on Penguin paperbacks? The answers to these questions and many more await readers in The Book Lovers' Miscellany.The Book Lovers' Miscellany is a cornu ...Show more
Drink Maps in Victorian Britain by Kris Butler
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Category: Bodleian Library
A fascinating exploration of the history of alcohol in Victorian Britain via the "drink maps" that were made to promote sobriety. What is a "drink map"? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed to shock and shame people into drinking less. T ...Show more
Bodleian Library - Hobbies and Pastimes Bookshelves (Foiled Pocket Journal) by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
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Category: Bodleian Library | Series: Flame Tree Pocket Bks.
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a s ...Show more
Wisdom from the Ancients by SWAIN, SIMON
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Category: Bodleian Library
A compilation of ancient wisdom sourced from ancient and medieval philosophers. Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to the next. Many of these wise observations originated from the philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome ...Show more
The Oxford Inklings : Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle by Colin Duriez
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Category: Bodleian Library
The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed ...Show more
Martha Lloyd's Household Book: The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen's Kitchen by GEHRER JULIENNE
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Category: Bodleian Library
This is the first facsimile publication of 'Martha Lloyd's Household Book', the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen's closest friend. Martha's notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with complete transcription and detailed annotation. Introductory chapters discuss its place among other hous ...Show more
Jane Austen: Writer in the World: Novelist in the World by Kathryn Sutherland
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Category: Bodleian Library
This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters, the homemade booklets in which she composed her novels and the portraits made ...Show more
Treasures from the Map Room: A Journey Through the Bodleian Collections by Debbie Hall
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Category: Bodleian Library
This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China - the earliest example of Chinese merchant cartography - and an ...Show more
Oxford Botanic Garden - A Guide by Simon Hiscock; Chris Thorogood
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Category: Bodleian Library
Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuously since its foundation in 1621 and is the United Kingdom's oldest botanic garden. Today, the Garden holds a collection of more than five thousand different types of plant, some of which exist nowhere else an ...Show more