Bücher der Reihe Oxford Books of Prose

This volume contains more than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicling the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicians to poets, and from the famous to the unknown.

This is a new anthology of detective stories with an international flavour, from the middle of the last century to the present day. Ranging from 19th-century France to contemporary Scotland via Denmark, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Japan, America, Canada, and elsewhere, the anthology shows how different nationalities imposed their own stamp on the genre.

There is no literature without a departure, a setting forth; and very often that has meant leaving the land for the more uncertain world of the sea. Many great writers have written about life at sea - this collection presents some of their more neglected works.