The Reader's Encyclopedia
Language: English
Published by Crowell, New York, 1983
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Charing Cross Road Booksellers, Canton, GA, U.S.A.Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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Black and Beige Linen Cloth decorated with gilt lettering to spine and front cover; red star remainder stamp on bottom book edge; orange endpapers; free front endpaper and following 2 pages have a shallow crease from improper handling; book edges are thumb-tabbed by publisher; book interior is clean and tight and unmarked; Book is protected by a clear mylar wrapper; large 8vo; 1118 pages.
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- Title
- The Reader's Encyclopedia
- Author
- Benet, William R.
- Publisher
- Crowell, New York
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Dustjacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0690671288
- ISBN 13
- 9780690671285
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Books on Books/ Bibliography
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Review
The answers lie in this delicious reference that anyone interested in humility should have; just glimpsing it on the shelf reminds one of how very much there is that one does not know. The thousands of entries in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia cover anything and nearly everything having to do with literature. The book includes biographies of authors, summaries of books and plays, depictions of characters and mythological figures, explications of literary terms and movements, and, well, a whole bunch of other irresistible stuff that is somewhat quirky and utterly engrossing. (For the curious: a stentor's voice is a very loud voice; John o'Groat's House is considered to be the most northerly point in Great Britain; in a beast epic, "the central characters are animals and the tone is often satirical"; the Jindyworobak Movement is "a school of Australian poets demanding fidelity to Australian environment and the employment of aboriginal themes"; and abracadabra is a cabalistic charm.)
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Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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