Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions - Softcover

Webber, Elizabeth; Feinsilber, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877796289 ISBN 13: 9780877796282

Publisher: Merriam Webster, 1999

Synopsis

"A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from today’s leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students."

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Review:

New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross, according to this book's preface, is said to have asked writer James Thurber once, with bewilderment, "Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?" Well, even Homer nods (Horace). But, Harold! Thou shouldst be living at this hour (Wordsworth). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions is a Big Rock Candy Mountain (American folk song) for anyone who feels amid the alien corn (Keats) when it comes to understanding allusions everyone else seems to grok (Heinlein). Thanks to the blood, sweat, and tears (Churchill) of authors Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber--compiling this allusional Rosetta stone must have taken a Herculean, nay Brobdingnagian (Swift) effort--we can come in from the cold (popularized by le Carré) of the dark night of the soul (St. John of the Cross) and dine out on (G. Gordon Liddy and others) these allusions for years to come. --Jane Steinberg

About the Author:

Mike Feinsilber is a contributor for the following Merriam-Webster Inc Title: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions

About this edition

• Publisher: Merriam Webster
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0877796289
• ISBN 13: 9780877796282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592