Benét's Reader's EncyclopediaBruce Murphy For nearly 50 years, this unique single-volume encyclopedia of world literature has been hailed as the best available. Here are over 10,000 informative entries, covering everything a reader could wish to know, including biographies of poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists and belletrists from around the world and through the ages, from Aristophanes to Toni Morrison, from Chuang Tzu to Juan Rulfo; plot summaries of important literary works, ranging from Beowulf to Wuthering Heights to Things Fall Apart; sketches of principal characters from literature, from Salome to Leopold Bloom; myth, legend and folklore, covering everything from Isis to the Midgard Serpentto to the paladins; biographies of artists, musicians, philosophers and other historical personages ranging from Roman emperors to U.S. presidents who figure prominently in literature; accounts of significant schools and movements in literature, such as the Bloomsbury Group and the Beat writers; original titles, as well as the most familiar English titles, for works in languages other than English and recipients of major literary awards, including Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners. From book cover. |
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Page 421
... father , the king . CLAUDIUS , his father's brother , has assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother , GERTRUDE , within two months of the king's death . His father's ghost appears to Hamlet , accuses Claudius of murdering him , and ...
... father , the king . CLAUDIUS , his father's brother , has assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother , GERTRUDE , within two months of the king's death . His father's ghost appears to Hamlet , accuses Claudius of murdering him , and ...
Page 521
... father's lustiness than his brothers , but is saved from the old man's depravity by his own innately noble nature . Accused of his father's murder , he refuses to defend himself adequately , because by so doing he would injure the ...
... father's lustiness than his brothers , but is saved from the old man's depravity by his own innately noble nature . Accused of his father's murder , he refuses to defend himself adequately , because by so doing he would injure the ...
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... father and assisted him in slaying his mother's suitors . Telemachus was accompanied on his voyage by ATHENE , the goddess of wisdom , under the form of MEN- TOR , one of his father's friends . He is the hero of TÉLÉMAQUE , a French ...
... father and assisted him in slaying his mother's suitors . Telemachus was accompanied on his voyage by ATHENE , the goddess of wisdom , under the form of MEN- TOR , one of his father's friends . He is the hero of TÉLÉMAQUE , a French ...
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