This book aims at explaining allusione and giving the essential facts about literary works in the English language and their authors.
American literature is included; other literatures only in so far as they provide common allusion in English. The allusions explained are for the most part limited to proper names, and words which are fully explained in an ordinary dictionary are as.a rule excluded. There are plots of plays, novels, and poems fof classic importance, and the principal characters in English Literature are given. 18s. plus postage.
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