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Academic Dictionary Of Fiction
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Author : Ashish Pandey
language : en
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Release Date : 2005-02
Academic Dictionary Of Fiction written by Ashish Pandey and has been published by Gyan Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02 with Fiction categories.
The present publication is an up-to-date, authentic and comprehensive dictionary of fiction, which recognises that fiction is a field in its own right, and with its own language. It aims to provide clear, concise, and correct definitions and descriptions of the terms used in fiction. The terminology of all the branches of fiction are included in this work. This work is designed to be a comprehensive reference tool for fiction writers, students and laymen interested in fiction. It is earnestly hoped that it will be an authoritative source to which one can turn with confidence for meaning and knowledge of the common, specialised and latest terms in fiction.
Dictionary Of Real People And Places In Fiction
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Author : M.C. Rintoul
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-05
Dictionary Of Real People And Places In Fiction written by M.C. Rintoul and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fascinating and comprehensive in scope, the Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction is a valuable source for both students and teachers of literature, and for those interested in locating the facts behind the fiction they read. In a single, scholarly volume, it provides intriguing insight into the real identity of people and places in the novels of over 300 American and British authors published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
An Explanatory And Pronouncing Dictionary Of The Noted Names Of Fiction
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Author : William Adolphus Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
An Explanatory And Pronouncing Dictionary Of The Noted Names Of Fiction written by William Adolphus Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Anonyms and pseudonyms categories.
The Dictionary Of Lost Words
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Author : Pip Williams
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2022-05-03
The Dictionary Of Lost Words written by Pip Williams and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD
The Fiction Dictionary
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Author : Laurie Henry
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Release Date : 1995
The Fiction Dictionary written by Laurie Henry and has been published by Penguin Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Covers all the relevant terms, past and present, in the language of fiction and fiction writing. Gives full descriptions of terms and uses examples from classic and contemporary fiction to illustrate the terms in play.
Dictionary Stories
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Author : Jez Burrows
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Dictionary Stories written by Jez Burrows and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Fiction categories.
"Dictionary Stories isn’t just a book for word nerds, but for anyone for whom language and story matter. Everybody will find themselves thoroughly in love with this book." —Kory Stamper, editor for Merriam-Webster, and author of Word by Word Everyone has looked up a word in the dictionary. Some of us have even asked for it to be used in a sentence during our 2nd grade spelling bee. But few of us have ever really considered those example sentences: where they come from, how they’re generated…and why in heaven’s name they are so darn weird. Jez Burrows opened the New Oxford American Dictionary and sat, mystified. Instead of the definition of "study" he was looking for, he found himself drawn to the strangely conspicuous, curiously melodramatic sentence that followed it: "He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery." It read like a tiny piece of fiction on the lam and hiding out in the dictionary—and it wasn’t alone. Was it possible to reunite these fugitive fictions? To combine and remix example sentences to form new works? With this spark and a handful of stories shared online, Dictionary Stories was born. This genre-bending and wildly inventive collection glows with humor, emotion, and intellect. Effortlessly transcending sentence level, Burrows lights between the profound and the absurd, transporting readers into moments, worlds, and experiences of remarkable variety. Featuring original illustrations by the author, Dictionary Stories is a giddy celebration of the beauty and flexibility of language.
Historical Dictionary Of Science Fiction In Literature
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Author : M. Keith Booker
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Historical Dictionary Of Science Fiction In Literature written by M. Keith Booker and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This dictionary covers the history of Science Fiction in literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries including significant people; themes; critical issues; and the most significant genres that have formed science fiction literature.
A Dictionary Of The Noted Names Of Fiction
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Author : William Adolphus Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
A Dictionary Of The Noted Names Of Fiction written by William Adolphus Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Characters and characteristics in literature categories.
An Explanatory And Pronouncing Dictionary Of The Noted Names Of Fiction
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Author : William Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-03-04
An Explanatory And Pronouncing Dictionary Of The Noted Names Of Fiction written by William Wheeler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-04 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
The Liar S Dictionary
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Author : Eley Williams
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2021-01-05
The Liar S Dictionary written by Eley Williams and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-05 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.