Oxford Paperback Reference provides the very best in specialized subject dictionaries. The series is unrivalled in its scope and quality. With nearly seventy titles in print there is sure to be a reference work to help you with your interests or studies.

Oxford’s Quotation Dictionaries encompass a wealth of topics, with the widest possible coverage of authors, periods, and subjects. The user-friendly style, clear information about the context of each quotation, and immediate access to the salient details of attribution and source, provide the most reliable and authoritative collections of quotations available today.

The well known Oxford Companions provide provoking overviews that capture a subject’s complexity and vitality, as well as defining its limits and relationships to other subject areas. Oxford Companions, as with all the titles in the reference range, combine penetrating depth of detail and analysis with outstandingly broad lateral coverage, allowing inimitable views of individual topics within their broader context. Each Companion combines the functionality of a subject dictionary with the breadth and scope of an encyclopedia.

Oxford’s range of Illustrated Histories offer the same outstanding quality and breadth of information as the Companions. These titles are arranged in series of chapters, as opposed to the alphabetical arrangement of the Companions.