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Ox-Tales: Fire

by · 2009

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Ox-Tales is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. Firefeatures stories by Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John le Carre, Xiaoulu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver and Jeanette Winterson, and a poem by Vikram Seth.

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The idea behind Ox-Tales is to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity's work in project areas: agriculture in Earth, water projects in Water, conflict aid in Fire, and climate change in Air.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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