Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

This is the first abridged edition of the legendary reference work, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, compiled by Dr Brewer in 1870, which has since gone through many editions and sold millions of copies. It has enjoyed great popularity ever since its first publication, and is a veritable treasure-trove of interesting pieces of information - some snippets, some larger articles, some extended lists - always fascinating and charming, and frequently amusingly idiosyncratic. It contains over 15,000 entries which give the meaning and origin of words, phrases, proper names, figures in mythology and history, and terms in religion, magic, philosophy, literature, geography, history, and the sciences. This is an extraordinary miscellany of knowledge, including lists of traditional animal calls, patron saints, wedding anniversaries, heraldic terms, how to play nine men's morris, and much more. As the Editor says in her Introduction, it is a unique and fascinating collection of information invaluable to anyone who reads or writes.

A classic reference work - The Times Educational Supplement

A browser's joy - Sunday Express

One of the great reference books - The Independent

Brewer's has always been the source of last resort for puzzling questions that are not answered in conventional dictionaries and encyclopedias - The Times

Originally conceived and produced by the great polymath Dr Ebenezer Cobham Brewer in 1870, this concise edition has been sensitively abridged and completely updated by Betty Kirkpatrick, editor of several well-known dictionaries and thesauri, including Roget's Thesaurus.

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ISBN 13	9781859862865
ISBN 10	1859862861
Title	Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Author	Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Series	Hutchinson Reference Classics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year published	1999-01-28
Number of pages	1136
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