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DW: Dustwrapper (same as dust jacket, or book jacket) [1] Ed.: Edition or editor. [1] [2] [3] Endp. or e.p.: Endpaper. [1] [2] Eng. or engr.: Engraved(ing). [1] Ex-lib: Ex-Library copy, a book once held in library. [1] [2] Not to be confused with Ex Libris. Ex Libris: From the library of, referring to previous owner—often found on bookplates ...
2nd; 3rd; 4th; 5th; 6th; 7th; ... out of 8 total. B. 2nd-century books (6 C, 48 P) D. 2nd-century documents ... Pages in category "2nd-century literature"
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature is an encyclopaedic bibliography of literature in English published by the Cambridge University Press. It was first published in the 1940s, and a revised edition was issued from 1969 with the prefix New. [1] A third series was launched in 1999, without the prefix, but by 2022 only volume 4 had ...
Cambridge Guide to English Literature.Cambridge, 1983. [36] Davis, Gwenn, Beverly A. Joyce. Personal writings by women to 1900: A bibliography of American and British writers. University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. ISBN 0806122064. [3] Drabble, Margaret. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford, 1985. [36]
The first edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, printed in 1962, comprised two volumes.Also printed in 1962 was a single-volume derivative edition, called The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors Edition, which contained reprintings with some additions and changes including 28 of the major authors appearing in the original edition.
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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A novel is a long fictional narrative, usually written in prose. In English, the term emerged from the Romance languages in the late 15th century, with the meaning of "news"; it came to indicate something new, without a distinction between fact or fiction. [125] The romance is a closely related long prose narrative.