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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions (original 1999; edition 1999)

by Elizabeth Webber

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A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.

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The legendary editor Harold Ross, founder of The New Yorker, is said to have once expressed plaintive bewilderment to his magazine's star writer, James Thurber: "Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?" This book is for people like Ross.

Abelard and Héloïse \'a-bə-lärd... 'a-lə,wēz, 'e-lə\ Tragically romantic lovers. Peter Abelard, a great scholar and teacher in France in the Middle Ages, became infatuated with Héloïse...

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A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.

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