Books published by publisher Oxford Univ. Press, 1971-LONDON

Publication Date: 3 Aug 2006 | Series: Winnie the Witch This fantastic volume includes six of Winnie and Wilbur's crazy capers. Meet them in their black house, take a hazardous ride on Winnie's broomstick, join them on a hot and sunny winter's day, find out what happens when Winnie's wand stops working, discover how much chaos a computer can cause and spend a day with them at the seaside! This collection is a must-have purchase for Winnie fans everywhere and, for those who have yet to meet everyone's favourite witch, it is a book that is guaranteed to make readers the best of friends with Winnie and her big black cat, Wilbur!

O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author. Library Journal It is a summer island of romantic beauty that he shows us, dwelling always on the colour of the scenery and the bright, wild life... London Times Literary Supplement This natural and beautiful book brings a breath of sea air and a strange music...It is as alive and sparkling as the sea on a summer morning. The Observer A book to buy, to beg, or to borrow. To miss it is to miss something which will leave your adventuring among books incomplete. Irish Independent You cannot possibly fail to enjoy this book, the only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation... The Listener --This text refers to the Paperback edition. This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelicspeaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever.In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art.