Dictionary Of Literary Characters

Author : Michael David Sollars
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816073795
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Characters written by Michael David Sollars and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of Literary Characters is a stunning, five-volume set containing descriptions of more than 40,000 characters in great literary works from the United States, Britain, and around the world. The wide assortment of characters featured in this comprehensive work are compiled from novels, short stories, and plays ranging from such ancient classics as Sophocles' Antigone to 21st-century prizewinners such as Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex. No other reference work covers such an extensive assortment of characters from so many different works of literature. Appendixes include alphabetical lists of authors and literary works covered in the set.

Author : Chambers
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9780550102140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Characters written by Chambers and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters provides an invaluable guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English - from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, and Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter. Features include concise biographies of authors, panels covering such topics as 'The detective in fiction' and 'Dickens' characters', and an appendix of literary awards.

Author : John R. Greenfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816021789
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of British Literary Characters written by John R. Greenfield and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies hundreds of characters from notable works of British fiction, from The Pilgrim's Progress to contemporary novels

Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1984820737
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Lost Words written by Pip Williams and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

Author : Willem Pieter Gerritsen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851157801
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes written by Willem Pieter Gerritsen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Cuchulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retelling and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography."--Jacket.

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of American Literary Characters written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466881933
Total Pages : 1582 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Characters In American Fiction written by Jack Salzman and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature--students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level. Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing--Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.

Author : Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher : Chambers
ISBN 13 : 9780550150097
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters written by Hodder & Stoughton and published by Chambers. This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael David Sollars
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 : 9780816073795
Total Pages : 2528 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Characters: entries D-H written by Michael David Sollars and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 2011 with total page 2528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of Literary Characters is a stunning, five-volume set containing descriptions of more than 40,000 characters in great literary works from the United States, Britain, and around the world. The wide assortment of characters featured in this comprehensive work are compiled from novels, short stories, and plays ranging from such ancient classics as Sophocles' Antigone to 21st-century prizewinners such as Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex. No other reference work covers such an extensive assortment of characters from so many different works of literature. Appendixes include alphabetical lists of authors and literary works covered in the set.

Author : Eley Williams
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385546785
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liar's Dictionary written by Eley Williams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.