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 55
... wife of Iapetus and mother of Prome- theus . In his PROMETHEUS UNBOUND , Shelley makes Asia play an important part as Prometheus ' wife . ( 2 ) According to the Koran , the wife of the Pharaoh who brought up Moses . Asia's husband ...
... wife of Iapetus and mother of Prome- theus . In his PROMETHEUS UNBOUND , Shelley makes Asia play an important part as Prometheus ' wife . ( 2 ) According to the Koran , the wife of the Pharaoh who brought up Moses . Asia's husband ...
Page 149
... wife must be above suspicion " has its origin in the incident when Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia after her name became linked with Clodius's , not because he believed her to be guilty , but because the wife of Caesar must not even be ...
... wife must be above suspicion " has its origin in the incident when Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia after her name became linked with Clodius's , not because he believed her to be guilty , but because the wife of Caesar must not even be ...
Page 542
... wife from the family of Laban ( Gen. 28 : 2 ) , he fell in love with Rachel . Her father promised her to Jacob provided he worked for him for seven years . After that time , Laban substituted his older daughter , Leah , as Jacob's wife ...
... wife from the family of Laban ( Gen. 28 : 2 ) , he fell in love with Rachel . Her father promised her to Jacob provided he worked for him for seven years . After that time , Laban substituted his older daughter , Leah , as Jacob's wife ...
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