Allusions in literature -- Dictionaries
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The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (based on 1894 edition), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
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Filed under: Allusions in literature- Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Ellen D. Finkelpearl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Familiar Allusions: A Hand-Book of Miscellaneous Information (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1882), by William A. Wheeler and Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Handbook to Literature (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Odyssey Press, c1960), by William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, and C. Hugh Holman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
- Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Heroes and Heroines of Fiction (two volumes in one; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, c1914-1915), by William S. Walsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (title page missing, but apparently the 1881 Lee and Shepard edition), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (1968 facsimile reprint; original publication Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1873), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (based on 1894 edition), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), ed. by William Thomas Brande and Joseph Cauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge: With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by William Thomas Brande, contrib. by Joseph Cauvin
- An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Who's He When He's At Home: A James Joyce Directory (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980), by Shari Benstock and Bernard Benstock (page images at Wisconsin)
- Faulkner's People: A Complete Guide and Index to Characters in the Fiction of William Faulkner (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963), by Robert W. Kirk, contrib. by Marvin Klotz (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Zola Dictionary: The Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola, by J. G. Patterson (Gutenberg text)
- An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Hartley et al., 1703) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of Erotic Literature (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Harry E. Wedeck (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- A Concise Poetical Concordance to the Principal Poets of the World: Embracing Titles, First Lines, Characters, Subjects, and Quotations (New York: J. B. Alden, 1885), by Charles Augustus Durfee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Haiku, Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods, by Jane Reichhold (HTML at ahapoetry.com)
- Dictionary of World Biography (fifth edition, c2018), by Barry O. Jones (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), by Parke Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by Parke Godwin
- Hand-Book of Universal Biography (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Parke Godwin
- An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
- Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Dictionnaire des Six Langues; Das Sechssprachige Wörterbuch; The Six-languages Dictionary; El Diccionario de las Seis Lenguas; Il Dizionario Delle Sei Lingue; O Diccionario das Seis Linguas: Médaille à l'Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900 (in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Lisbon: Empresa Editora do "Occidente", 1902), by Francisco de Almeida
- French-English and English-French Dictionary of Aviation (New York: Languages Pub. Co., 1918), by Robert M. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States (third edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1860), by John Russell Bartlett
- Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States (fourth edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1884), by John Russell Bartlett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Particular to the United States (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1848), by John Russell Bartlett (HTML and Epub at merrycoz.org)
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology (New York: Hawthorn Books, c1960), ed. by Leonard Cottrell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Handbook of Technical Terms Used in Architecture and Building and Their Allied Trades and Subjects (London: Scott, Greenwood, and Co.; et al., 1904), by Augustine C. Passmore
- Aristotle Dictionary (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Aristotle, ed. by Thomas P. Kiernan, trans. by Harry E. Wedeck and Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Theodore E. James (page images at HathiTrust)
- Index Aristotelicus (in Latin and Greek; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1870), ed. by Hermann Bonitz, contrib. by Bernhard August Langkavel and Jürgen Bona Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), ed. by William Thomas Brande and Joseph Cauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge: With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by William Thomas Brande, contrib. by Joseph Cauvin
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1873), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
- Arthurian Name Dictionary (c2000), by Christopher W. Bruce (HTML at Celtic Twilight)
- Arthurian Name Dictionary (c2000), by Christopher W. Bruce (HTML at Celtic Twilight)
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