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10 best books like The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Margaret Drabble): Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction, A Handbook to Literature, Essential Shakespeare Handbook, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
AuthorEbenezer Cobham Brewer
Various editions of this book are available online in digitized form. But that shouldn't stop you from getting your own physical copy. Nothing can rival the joy of browsing through it - you're bound to learn something fascinating along the way. As Terry Pratchett says in the Foreword, it's a storehouse...
Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
AuthorJohn Sutherland
ISBN0192838849
In this sequel to his popular works Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?, John Sutherland unravels thirty-four new literary puzzles, once again combining erudition with bold investigative speculation. In addition to these new conundrums, Professor Sutherland revisits some previous...
A Handbook to Literature
AuthorWilliam Harmon
ISBN0130127310
It is a handy book that can be read for pleasure. However, the publisher really doesn't need to update it every 3 years to force poor students to buy the new editions. In this 10th edition the editor admitted there was little substantial he could add. In fact, he mentioned his children suggested three new...
Essential Shakespeare Handbook
AuthorLeslie Dunton-Downer
ISBN1465402268
THE ONE-STOP, SINGLE-VOLUME COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST WORKS-HIS HISTORY PLAYS, COMEDIES, TRAGEDIA, ROMANCES, AND POETRY

A portrait of Shakespeare's life and times: critics, contemporaries, patrons, and the era's vibrant theater.

Full commentaries on all 39 plays...
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
AuthorAlex Preminger
ISBN0691021236
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough...
The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
AuthorPaul Simpson
ISBN1843533871
This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your Jim Thompson, you''ll still find it hard to resist a book which tells you which cult novel has been implicated in assassinations, which world famous novelist...
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
AuthorJ.A. Cuddon
ISBN0140513639
The latest installment of this trusted literary companion covers all aspects of literary theory, from definitions of technical terms to characterizations of literary movements. Geared toward students, teachers, readers, and writers alike, The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary...
Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More
AuthorCharles Boyce
ISBN0385313616
-What famous essayist insisted that Shakespeare's play were unfit for performance?-Which two plays center on the Hundred Years' War?
-In which scene of "Romeo and Juliet" does the nurse report--falsely--that Juliet is dead and thus seal Romeo's tragic fate?
The answers are easily found...
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
AuthorKathleen Kuiper
ISBN0877790426
To say that I've "read" it is a bit misleading since it's an encyclopedia, but I've had this reference book for many years and it's well-worn with affection. I love literature, but I also have a goofy passion for encyclopedic books.

This literary encyclopedia is kind of old, published in 1995,...
The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition
AuthorIan P. Watt
ISBN0520230698
The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.

In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the...
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN0374529272
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust,...
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
AuthorMalcolm Bradbury
ISBN0140138323
History

Any reader of literary fiction from the last 120 years will sooner or later encounter the distinction between Modernism and Post-Modernism.

My teenage years coincided with the 1970's. During this period I became a consumer and advocate of Modernism, whether or not I could...
The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (Pelican)
AuthorF.R. Leavis
ISBN0140214879

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
The Oxford Companion to the English Language
AuthorTom McArthur
Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and speech, in the endless variety of dialects and slangs, in the incessant creativity of the human mind as it reaches...
A Glossary of Literary Terms
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN1413004563
I had to buy this book for some class many many moons ago, and I thought it would be old hat by now, what with it sitting gathering dust on the shelf over the years.

Surprisingly, though, after thinking I was just going to refresh my memory on little morsels like adynaton, hypozeugma, and all the...
Roget's International Thesaurus
AuthorPeter Mark Roget
ISBN0062700146
Roget's International Thesaurus®, fifth edition, is the original -- now completely expanded, reorganized, revised and updated -- the definitive thesaurus for the 21st century.

While retaining Dr. Peter Mark Roget's fundamental and brilliant category concept which groups all synonyms,...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
AuthorJohn Bartlett
ISBN0316082775
This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the...
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
AuthorHenry Watson Fowler
ISBN0192813897
the first edition of this was published in 1926. written by a genius named Henry Fowler, it is a legendary masterpiece of wit, erudition, and inscrutable insight into how to write well. it has everything - commonly confused pairs, spellings, plurals, and ultranittygritty grammar (EIGHT PAGES on the...
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
AuthorSimon Hornblower
ISBN0198606419
For almost half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume reference work on the Greco-Roman world. Whether one is interested in literature or art, philosophy or law, mythology or science, intimate details of daily life or broad cultural and historical trends,...
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
AuthorOxford University Press
ISBN0198607202
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has been long hailed as the most literary quotation book available, and the newest edition is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Over 20,000 quotations from every era and every location bring you the wisdom of ages and the sound bites of today. The text...
The New York Public Library Desk Reference
AuthorNew York Public Library
ISBN0671850148
Cleaning my bookshelves is always dangerous because I end up wanting to sit down with every other book and get lost in it. The NYPL Desk Reference is particularly tempting. Google be damned, this book - full of all sorts of helpful &/or fascinating charts, lists, graphs, signs, symbols, useful addresses!...
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
AuthorOxford University Press
Description
* Special words for special occasions
* The best quotations of past and present
* Snappy one-liners and the world's great ideas
* From Salman Rushdie on Absence to Shakespeare on Youth
New to this edition
* New quotes and themes
* New reader-friendly design
...
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
AuthorRichard Langton Gregory
With over 900 entries, ranging from brief definitions to substantial essays on major topics, The Oxford Companion to the Mind takes the reader on a dazzling tour of this endlessly fascinating subject, spanning many disciplines within the broad compass of philosophy, psychology and the physiology...
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