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Albert George Latham
Albert George Latham was the first Professor of Modern Languages at Newcastle University.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.
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Amsvartnir
In Norse mythology, Amsvartnir (Old Norse "pitch black")Orchard (1997:6).
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Andlang
In Norse mythology, Andlang (also Andlàngr or Öndlangr) is described as the second heavenly realm which stretches between the first, containing the halls of the gods, and the third, named Vídbláin.
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Ann Pasternak Slater
Ann Pasternak Slater (born 3 August 1944) is a literary scholar and translator who was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Anthony Hope
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright.
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Anton Reicha
Anton (Antonín, Antoine) Reicha (Rejcha) (26 February 1770 – 28 May 1836) was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer.
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Arnulf de Montgomery
Arnulf de Montgomery (born c.1066; died 1118×1122) was an Anglo-Norman magnate.
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Arthur Clare Cawley
Arthur Clare Cawley (1913–1993) was an English literature academic.
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Auðr
In Norse mythology, Auðr (Old Norse "prosperity"Simek (2007:22).) is the son of the personified night, Nótt, fathered by Naglfari, and uncle of Thor.
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Álfröðull
Álfröðull (Old Norse "elf-beam",Orchard (1997:153). "elf-disc"Faulkes (1995:133). or "elf-glory, elf-heaven"Machan (1988).) is a term and common kenning in Norse mythology.
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Ægir
In Norse mythology, Ægir (Old Norse "sea")Lindow (2001:47).
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Æsir–Vanir War
In Norse mythology, the Æsir–Vanir War was a conflict between two groups of deities that ultimately resulted in the unification of the Æsir and the Vanir into a single pantheon.
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Ítreksjóð
In Norse mythology, Ítreksjóð (Old Norse) is a son of Odin and a god.
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Óðr
In Norse mythology, Óðr (Old Norse for the "Divine Madness, frantic, furious, vehement, eager", as a noun "mind, feeling" and also "song, poetry"; Orchard (1997) gives "the frenzied one"Orchard (1997:121).) or Óð, sometimes angliziced as Odr or Od, is a figure associated with the major goddess Freyja.
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Þjálfi and Röskva
In Norse mythology, Þjálfi and Röskva are two siblings, male and female respectively, who are servants of the god Thor.
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Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa
In Norse mythology, Þorgerðr Hǫlgabrúðr (Thorgerdr Holgabrudr) and Irpa are divine figures.
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Þrúðvangr
In Norse mythology, Þrúðvangr (Old Norse "power-field",Simek (2007:330). sometimes anglicized as Thrudvang or Thruthvang) or Þrúðvangar (plural form) is/are a field/fields where the god Thor resides.
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Barbara Foxley
Barbara Foxley (20 August 1860 – 26 August 1958) was a British Professor of Education at University College, Cardiff and a campaigner for women's rights.
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Barry Island
Barry Island (Ynys y Barri) is a district, peninsula and seaside resort, forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
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Bembo
Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928-9 and most commonly used for body text.
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Bergelmir
In Norse mythology, Bergelmir (Old Norse "Mountain Yeller" or "Bear Yeller") is a frost giant, the son of giant Þrúðgelmir and the grandson of Ymir (who was called Aurgelmir among giants), the first frost giant, according to stanza 29 of the poem Vafthrudnismal from the Poetic Edda: According to the Gylfaginning section of the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Bergelmir and his wife alone among the giants were the only survivors of the enormous deluge of blood which flowed from Ymir's wounds when he was killed by Odin and his brothers Vili and Vé.
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Bestla
In Norse mythology, Bestla is the mother of the gods Odin, Vili and Vé by way of Borr, the sister of an unnamed being who assisted Odin, and the daughter or, depending on source, granddaughter of the jötunn Bölþorn.
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Bifröst
In Norse mythology, Bifröst (or sometimes Bilröst or Bivrost) is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods.
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Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the United Kingdom's only literary award for comic literature.
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Book series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.
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Brimir
In Norse mythology, Brimir is possibly another name for the giant Ymir and also a name of a hall for the souls of the virtuous following the endtime conflict of Ragnarok.
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C. A. Patrides
Constantinos Apostolos Patrides (1930 – 23 September 1986) was a Greek–American academic and writer, and “one of the greatest scholars of Renaissance literature of his generation”.
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Canvey Island
Canvey Island is a civil parish and reclaimed island in the Thames estuary in Essex, England.
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Champ de Mars Massacre
The Champ de Mars Massacre took place on 17 July 1791 in Paris in the midst of the French Revolution.
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.
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Classics (disambiguation)
Classics is the branch of humanities dealing with the ancient Mediterranean world.
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Cligès
Cligès is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176.
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Comrade Bingo
"Comrade Bingo" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.
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Cortona
Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy.
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Dagr
In Norse mythology, Dagr (Old Norse "day"Lindow (2001:91).) is day personified.
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 16 April 1960) is an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator.
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Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar
In Norse mythology, Dökkálfar (Old Norse: Døkkálfar "Dark Elves"; singular Døkkálfr) and Ljósálfar (Old Norse for "Light Elves", singular Ljósálfr) are two contrasting types of elves; the former dwell within the earth and are most swarthy, while the latter live in Álfheimr, and are "fairer than the sun to look at".
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Descriptio Cambriae
The Descriptio Cambriae or Descriptio Kambriae (Description of Wales) is a geographical and ethnographic treatise on Wales and its people dating from 1193 or 1194.
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Dispatches (book)
Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine.
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Donald Adamson
Dr Donald Adamson (born 30 March 1939) is a British literary scholar, author and historian.
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Donald Serrell Thomas
Donald Serrell Thomas (born 18 July 1934) is an English author of (primarily) Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academic books on the history of crime in London.
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Donald Sinden
Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, CBE, FRSA (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author.
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E. P. Dutton
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Echmarcach mac Ragnaill
Echmarcach mac Ragnaill (died 1064/1065) was a dominant figure in the eleventh-century Irish Sea region.
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Edward Payson Dutton
Edward Payson Dutton (January 4, 1831 – 1923) was a prominent American book publisher.
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Einherjar
In Norse mythology, the einherjar (Old Norse "single (or once) fighters"Orchard (1997:36) and Lindow (2001:104).) are those who have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries.
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Ellen Marriage
Ellen Marriage (26 August 1865 – 23 December 1946) was an English translator from French, notably of Balzac's novels.
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Erec and Enide
Erec and Enide (Érec et Énide) is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170.
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Eric Fraser (illustrator)
Eric George Fraser (11 June 1902 – 15 November 1983) was a British illustrator and graphic artist.
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Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories
Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories is a posthumous collection of Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1995.
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Ernest Rhys
Ernest Percival Rhys (17 July 1859 – 25 May 1946) was a Welsh-English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics.
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Essays (Francis Bacon)
Essayes: Religious Meditations.
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Eugène Maizan
Eugène Maizan (28 September 1816 in Montauban – July 1845) was a French Naval lieutenant and explorer, possibly the first European to penetrate East Africa and the first to enter tropical Africa from Zanzibar.
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Evelina
Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778.
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Everyman (disambiguation)
Everyman, in literature drama, is an ordinary individual, with whom the audience is able to easily identify.
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Everyman (play)
The of Everyman (The Summoning of Everyman), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play.
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Everyman's Encyclopaedia
Everyman's Encyclopaedia is an encyclopedia published by Joseph Dent from 1913 as part of the Everyman's Library.
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F. G. Loring
Frederick George Loring (1869–1951) was an English naval officer and writer, and an early expert in wireless telegraphy.
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F. L. Lucas
Frank Laurence Lucas (28 December 1894 – 1 June 1967) was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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Family tree of the Norse gods
This is a Family tree of the Norse gods showing kin relations among notable gods and goddesses in Norse mythology.
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Fárbauti
In Norse mythology, Fárbauti (Old Norse: "cruel striker") is the jötunn husband of Laufey and the father of Loki, and possibly also of Helblindi and Byleistr.
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Fólkvangr
In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (Old Norse "field of the host"Orchard (1997:45). or "people-field" or "army-field"Lindow (2001:118).) is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, while the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.
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Fenrir
Fenrir (Old Norse: "fen-dweller")Orchard (1997:42).
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Fensalir
In Norse mythology, Fensalir (Old Norse "Fen Halls"Orchard (1997:43).) is a location where the goddess Frigg dwells.
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Flood myth
A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution.
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Frank Arthur Swinnerton
Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist.
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Freyja
In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse for "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death.
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Frigg
In Germanic mythology, Frigg (Old Norse), Frija (Old High German), Frea (Langobardic), and Frige (Old English) is a goddess.
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Gallia (novel)
Gallia is an 1895 novel written by Ménie Muriel Dowie.
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Gefjon
In Norse mythology, Gefjon (alternatively spelled Gefion or Gefjun) is a goddess associated with ploughing, the Danish island of Zealand, the legendary Swedish king Gylfi, the legendary Danish king Skjöldr, foreknowledge, and virginity.
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George Orwell bibliography
The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–50), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell.
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George Routledge
George Routledge (23 September 1812 – 13 December 1888) was a British publisher, the founder of the publishing house Routledge.
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Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Gymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon and historian.
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Gerðr
In Norse mythology, Gerðr (Old Norse "fenced-in"Orchard (1997:54).) is a jötunn, goddess, and the wife of the god Freyr.
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Geri and Freki
In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki (Old Norse, both meaning "the ravenous" or "greedy one") are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin.
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Gilli (Hebridean earl)
Gilli was an eleventh-century Hebridean chieftain whose career coincided with an era of Orcadian overlordship in the Kingdom of the Isles.
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Gjallarhorn
In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse /ˈɡjalr̩horn/,Zoëga(1910:166). "yelling horn"Orchard (1997:57). or "the loud sounding horn"Simek (2007:110).) is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir.
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Glasir
In Norse mythology, Glasir (Old Norse "gleaming"Orchard (1997:57).) is a tree or grove, described as "the most beautiful among gods and men", bearing golden red leaves located in the realm of Asgard, outside the doors of Valhalla.
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Gná and Hófvarpnir
In Norse mythology, Gná is a goddess who runs errands in other worlds for the goddess Frigg and rides the flying, sea-treading horse Hófvarpnir (Old Norse "he who throws his hoofs about",Simek (2007:157). "hoof-thrower"Lindow (2001:146). or "hoof kicker"Byock (2005:43).). Gná and Hófvarpnir are attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
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Godefroi de Leigni
Godefroi de Leigni was a clerk and an associate of Chrétien de Troyes during the 12th century, presumably at the court of Marie de Champagne.
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H. Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.
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Harvard Classics
The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr.
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Hati Hróðvitnisson
In Norse mythology, Hati Hróðvitnisson (first name meaning "He Who Hates", or "Enemy"Byock, Jesse. (Trans.) The Prose Edda, page 164. (2006) Penguin Classics) is a warg; a wolf that, according to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, chases Máni, the moon, across the night sky, just as the wolf Sköll chases Sól, the sun, during the day, until the time of Ragnarök, when they will swallow these heavenly bodies.
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Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.
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Heimdalargaldr
Heimdalargaldr (Old Norse "Heimdallr's galdr") is an Old Norse poem about the god Heimdallr of Norse mythology.
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Heimdallr
In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr, has gold teeth, and is the son of Nine Mothers (who may represent personified waves).
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Hel (being)
In Norse mythology, Hel is a being who presides over a realm of the same name, where she receives a portion of the dead.
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Helreginn
In Norse Mythology, Helreginn ("Ruler over Hel"Simek (2007:138).) is a jötunn listed in the þulur section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál.
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Hengist and Horsa
Hengist and Horsa are legendary brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος, Hêródotos) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (484– 425 BC), a contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides.
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Himinbjörg
In Norse mythology, Himinbjörg (Old Norse "heaven's castle"Simek (2007:147). or "heaven mountain"Lindow (2002:174).) is the home of the god Heimdallr.
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Hjúki and Bil
In Norse mythology, Hjúki (Old Norse, possibly meaning "the one returning to health"Simek (2007:151).) and Bil (Old Norse, literally "instant"Cleasby (1874).) are a brother and sister pair of children who follow the personified moon, Máni, across the heavens.
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Hlín
In Norse mythology, Hlín is a goddess associated with the goddess Frigg.
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Hnitbjorg
In Norse mythology, Hnitbjorg is the mountain abode of the giant Suttung, where he placed the mead of poetry for safekeeping under the guardianship of his daughter Gunnlod.
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Hoddmímis holt
In Norse mythology, Hoddmímis holt (Old Norse "Hoard-Mímir's"Simek (2007:154). holt) is a location where Líf and Lífþrasir are foretold to survive the long winters of Fimbulvetr.
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Holy Fire
The Holy Fire (Greek Ἃγιον Φῶς, "Holy Light") is described by Orthodox Christians as a miracle that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Great Saturday, or Holy Saturday, the day preceding Orthodox Easter.
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Honeydew (secretion)
Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap.
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Hraudung
In Norse mythology, Hraudung was a human king and the father of Geirröd and Agnar according to the prose header of the poem Grímnismál from the Poetic Edda.
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Hræsvelgr
In Norse mythology, Hræsvelgr (Old Norse "Corpse Swallower") is a giant who takes the form of an eagle.
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Huginn and Muninn
In Norse mythology, Huginn (from Old Norse "thought"Orchard (1997:92).) and Muninn (Old Norse "memory"Orchard (1997:115). or "mind"Lindow (2001:186).) are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin.
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Hvergelmir
In Norse mythology, Hvergelmir (Old Norse "bubbling boiling spring"Orchard (1997:93)) is a major spring.
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Hyrrokkin
In Norse mythology, Hyrrokkin ("Fire-Smoked", possibly referring to a dark, shrivelled appearance) is a giantess.
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Iðunn
In Norse mythology, Iðunn is a goddess associated with apples and youth.
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Ilmr
Ilmr is a figure in Norse mythology who is listed as a goddess and who occurs in skaldic kennings.
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Im (jötunn)
In Norse mythology, Im or Imr is a giant and the son of Vafthrudnir.
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Isaac Todhunter
Isaac Todhunter FRS (23 November 1820 – 1 March 1884), was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.
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J. M. Dent
Joseph Malaby Dent (30 August 1849 – 9 May 1926) was a British book publisher who produced the Everyman's Library series.
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James Boswell
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh.
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Javelin
A javelin is a light spear designed primarily to be thrown, historically as a ranged weapon, but today predominantly for sport.
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Jötunheimr
Jötunheimr (or Jǫtunheimr in Old Norse orthography; often anglicized as Jotunheim) is the homeland of the Jötnar, the giants in Norse mythology.
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John Cournos
John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (Иван Григорьевич Коршун; he himself used the form Johann Gregorevich for his original name) (6 March 1881 – 27 August 1966), was a writer and translator of Russian-Jewish background who spent his later life in exile.
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John Medows Rodwell
John Medows Rodwell (1808–1900) was a friend of Charles Darwin while both matriculated at Cambridge.
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John Richard Green
John Richard Green (12 December 1837 – 7 March 1883) was an English historian.
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John Selby Watson
The Reverend John Selby Watson (1804 – 6 July 1884) was a British classical translator and murderer.
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John Stow
John Stow (also Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian.
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John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
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John William Cousin
John William Cousin (1849–1910) was a British writer, editor and biographer.
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Kenneth Minogue
Professor Kenneth Robert Minogue (11 September 1930 – 28 June 2013) was an Australian conservative political theorist who was Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics.
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Kerlaugar
In Norse mythology, the Kerlaugar (plural form of Old Norse kerlaug "kettle-bath",Orchard (1997:100).) i.e. "bath-tub", are two rivers through which the god Thor wades.
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Khufu's Wisdom
Khufu's Wisdom is an early novel by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.
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Korach (parsha)
Korach or Korah (— Hebrew for the name "Korah," which in turn means "baldness, ice, hail, or frost," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 38th weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the Book of Numbers.
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Kvasir
In Norse mythology, Kvasir was a being born of the saliva of the Æsir and the Vanir, two groups of gods.
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette) is an Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes.
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Laufey
Laufey or Nál is a figure from Norse mythology and mother of Loki and consort of Fárbauti.
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Lavengro
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest (1851) is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th-century English literature.
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Læsø
Læsø ("Isle of Hlér") is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Danish mainland.
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Líf and Lífþrasir
In Norse mythology, Líf (identical with the Old Norse noun meaning "life, the life of the body")Cleasby & Vigfusson s.v. líf.
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List of assets owned by Bertelsmann
This is an incomplete list of assets owned by Bertelsmann.
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List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
This is a list of notable encyclopedias sorted by branch of knowledge.
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List of English-language book publishing companies
This is a list of English-language book publishers.
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List of group-0 ISBN publisher codes
A list of publisher codes for (978) International Standard Book Numbers with a group code of zero.
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List of jötnar in Norse mythology
The Prose and Poetic Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of Jotnar (giants and giantesses).
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List of LGBT characters in modern written fiction
This is a list of LGBT characters in modern written fiction.
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List of people with major depressive disorder
This is a list of notable people who have, or have had, major depressive disorder.
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List of works by Andrew Marvell
The works by Andrew Marvell consist of lyric poems, Latin poems, and many others.
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List of works by Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually stylised as Dorothy L. Sayers; 1893–1957) was an English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist; she was also a student of classical and modern languages.
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Lofn
In Norse mythology, Lofn (Old Norse, possibly "comforter,")Orchard (1997:104).
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Loki
Loki (Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, often Anglicized as) is a god in Norse mythology.
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London Society (organisation)
The London Society is a British membership organisation established to encourage public interest and participation in urban planning and transport matters in London as well as to study and celebrate the capital's unique history and character.
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Maria Terrone
Maria Terrone (May 21, Manhattan) is an American poet and writer.
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Marius the Epicurean
Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas is a historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater (his only completed full-length fiction), written between 1881 and 1884, published in 1885 and set in 161–177 AD, in the Rome of the Antonines.
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Mary Beaumont (author)
Mary Beaumont was the pseudonym of Rosa Oakes (née Mellor, 1849–1910), a minor Victorian author.
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Máni
Máni (Old Norse "moon"Orchard (1997:109).) is the personification of the moon in Norse mythology.
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Mémoires (Berlioz)
The Mémoires de Hector Berlioz are an autobiography by French composer Hector Berlioz.
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Ménie Muriel Dowie
Ménie Muriel Dowie (15 July 1867 – 25 March 1945) was a British writer.
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Mímir
Mímir (Old Norse "The rememberer, the wise one")Simek (2007:216).
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Mímisbrunnr
In Norse mythology, Mímisbrunnr (Old Norse "Mímir's well"Simek (2007:216).) is a well associated with the being Mímir, located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil.
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Meditations
Meditations (Ta eis heauton, literally "things to one's self") is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
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Meili
In Norse mythology, Meili (Old Norse "the lovely one"Simek (2007:210).) is a god, son of the god Odin and brother of the god Thor.
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Memoirs of a Cavalier
Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720) is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars.
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Metaphysics (Aristotle)
Metaphysics (Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά; Latin: Metaphysica) is one of the principal works of Aristotle and the first major work of the branch of philosophy with the same name.
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Monographic series
Monographic series (alternatively, monographs in series) are scholarly and scientific books released in successive volumes, each of which is structured like a separate book or scholarly monograph.
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Murray Dewart
Murray Dewart (born September 19, 1947) is an American sculptor best known for his large gate-like structures in granite and bronze.
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My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001.
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Naglfar
In Norse mythology, Naglfar or Naglfari (Old Norse "nail farer") is a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead.
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Naglfari
In Norse mythology, Naglfari is the father of Auðr by the personified night, Nótt.
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Nanna (Norse deity)
In Norse mythology, Nanna Nepsdóttir or simply Nanna is a goddess associated with the god Baldr.
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Níðhöggr
In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr (Malice Striker, traditionally also spelled Níðhǫggr, often anglicized NidhoggWhile the suffix of the name, -höggr, clearly means "striker" the prefix is not as clear. In particular the length of the first vowel is not determined in the original sources. Some scholars prefer the reading Niðhöggr (Striker in the Dark).) is a dragon/serpent who gnaws at a root of the world tree, Yggdrasil.
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Nóatún (mythology)
In Norse mythology, Nóatún (Old Norse "ship-enclosure"Orchard (1997:119).) is the abode of the god Njörðr, described in the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning as located "in heaven".
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Nótt
In Norse mythology, Nótt (Old Norse "night"Orchard (1997:120).) is night personified, grandmother of Thor.
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Nicholas Boyle
Nicholas Boyle FBA (born 18 June 1946) is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán
In Norse mythology, the goddess Rán and the jötunn Ægir both personify the sea, and together they have nine daughters who personify waves.
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Nine Mothers of Heimdallr
In Norse mythology, the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are nine sisters who gave birth to the god Heimdallr.
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Njörðr
In Norse mythology, Njörðr is a god among the Vanir.
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Njörun
In Norse mythology, Njörun (Old Norse: Njǫrun, sometimes modernly anglicized as Niorun) is a goddess attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and various kennings (including once in the Poetic Edda).
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Norse mythology
Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.
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Odin
In Germanic mythology, Odin (from Óðinn /ˈoːðinː/) is a widely revered god.
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Orion Publishing Group
Orion Publishing Group Ltd.
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Outline of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This is an outline of the six-volume work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, authored by English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794).
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Oxford World's Classics
Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press.
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P. G. Wodehouse bibliography
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (1881–1975) was an English author, humorist and scriptwriter.
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Padraic Colum
Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore.
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Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint with editorial independence.
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Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot (Old Goriot or Father Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics is an imprint published by Penguin Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.
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Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House (PRH) is an American multinational publishing company formed in 2013 from the merger of Random House (owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) and Penguin Group (owned by British publishing company Pearson PLC).
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Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is the unfinished fifth romance of Chrétien de Troyes, who lived from around 1130 to the early 1190s, and is dedicated to Chrétien's patron Philip, Count of Flanders.
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Philip Henderson
Philip Prichard Henderson (17 February 1906 – 13 September 1977) was a British novelist and literature critic.
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Ragnall mac Gofraid
Ragnall mac Gofraid (died 1004/1005) was King of the Isles and likely a member of the Uí Ímair kindred.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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Rati (Norse mythology)
In Norse mythology, Rati is the name of a drill or auger that was used by Odin during his quest to obtain the mead of poetry from the giant Suttung with the help of Suttung's brother Baugi.
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Rán
In Norse mythology, Rán is a goddess and a personification of the sea.
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Róta
In Norse mythology, Róta is a valkyrie.
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Rebecca Fraser
Rebecca Rose Fraser (born May 1957) is a British writer and broadcaster.
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Reginald Knowles
Reginald L. Knowles (1879 – 1951) was a book designer and illustrator who worked with his brother, Horace Knowles, on a number of exquisite illustrated books in the first two decades of the twentieth century, including Legends from Fairyland (1907), Norse Fairy Tales (1910) and Old World Love-Stories (1913).
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Rhadopis of Nubia
Rhadopis of Nubia is an early novel by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.
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Richard Charles Mills
Professor Richard Charles Mills (8 March 1886 – 6 August 1952) was an Australian economist and academic.
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Richard Rhodes
Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).
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Roald Dahl: Collected Stories
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories is a hardcover edition of short-stories by Roald Dahl for adults.
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Robert Burton (scholar)
Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.
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Roger Lancelyn Green
Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a British biographer and children's writer.
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Romesh Chunder Dutt
Romesh Chunder Dutt, CIE (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত) (August 13, 1848 – November 30, 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer, and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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Ronald Lockley
Ronald Mathias Lockley (8 November 1903 – 12 April 2000) was a Welsh ornithologist and naturalist.
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Salomon de Basing
Salomon de Basing (13th century) was an English politician of medieval London.
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.
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Sæhrímnir
In Norse mythology, Sæhrímnir is the creature killed and eaten every night by the Æsir and einherjar.
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Sól (sun)
Sól (Old Norse "Sun")Orchard (1997:152).
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Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan (Schlieffen-Plan) was the name given after World War I to the thinking behind the German invasion of France and Belgium on 4 August 1914.
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Scottish book sculptures
The Scottish book sculptures are a group of book sculptures that were contrived to be "found" in Scotland between 2011 and 2013.
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Sebastian Evans
Sebastian Evans (2 March 1830 – 19 December 1909) was an English journalist and political activist, known also as a man of letters and artist.
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Sessrúmnir
In Norse mythology, Sessrúmnir (Old Norse "seat-room"Orchard (1997:138). or "seat-roomer"Simek (2007:280).) is both the goddess Freyja's hall located in Fólkvangr, a field where Freyja receives half of those who die in battle, and also the name of a ship.
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Sif
In Norse mythology, Sif is a goddess associated with earth.
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Sigyn
In Norse mythology, Sigyn (Old Norse "victorious girl-friend"Orchard (1997:146).) is a goddess and is the wife of Loki.
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Sjöfn
In Norse mythology, Sjöfn (or Sjǫfn in Old Norse orthography) is a goddess associated with love.
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Skaði
In Norse mythology, Skaði (sometimes anglicized as Skadi, Skade, or Skathi) is a jötunn and goddess associated with bowhunting, skiing, winter, and mountains.
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Skíðblaðnir
Skíðblaðnir (Old Norse 'assembled from thin pieces of wood'Simek (2007:289).), sometimes anglicized as Skidbladnir or Skithblathnir, is the best of ships in Norse mythology.
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Sleipnir
In Norse mythology, Sleipnir (Old Norse "slippy"Orchard (1997:151). or "the slipper"Kermode (1904:6).) is an eight-legged horse ridden by Odin.
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Snotra
In Norse mythology, Snotra (Old Norse "clever")Orchard (1997:152).
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Sonny Mehta
Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta (born 1942) is the current editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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Springhaven
Springhaven: a tale of the Great War is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1887.
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Sumarr and Vetr
In Norse mythology, Sumarr (Old Norse "Summer"Orchard (1997:154).) and Vetr (Old Norse "Winter"Orchard (1997:174).) are personified seasons.
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Surtr
In Norse mythology, Surtr (Old Norse "black"Orchard (1997:154). or "the swarthy one"Simek (2007:303–304)) is a jötunn.
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Svaðilfari
In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari (Old Norse perhaps "unlucky traveler"Orchard (1997:156); derived from Old Norse 'svað': 'slippery' - cf. Norwegian 'svaberg' 'slippery rock'; '-il': footwear, protection for the feet; '-fari': 'someoneone who usually goes somewhere specific', 'a traveller'. Possible meaning "the one that like to go where it is slippery') is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki (in the form of a mare).
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Svartálfar
In Norse mythology, svartálfar (O.N. "black elves", sing. svartálfr), also called myrkálfar ("dark elves", "dusky elves", "murky elves", sing. myrkálfr), are beings who dwell in Svartalfheim (Svartálfheimr, "home of the black-elves").
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Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales.
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Tales of Two People
Tales of Two People is a collection of short stories and novelettes by Anthony Hope, the author better known as the writer of The Prisoner of Zenda.
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Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr
Tanngrisnir (Old Norse "teeth-barer, snarler") and Tanngnjóstr (Old Norse "teeth grinder") are the goats who pull the god Thor's chariot in Norse mythology.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia.
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The Battle of Maldon
"The Battle of Maldon" is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon of 991, at which the Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent a Viking invasion.
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The Book of Prefaces
The Book of Prefaces, is a 2000 book "edited and glossed" by the Scottish artist and novelist Alasdair Gray.
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The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844.
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The Decameron
The Decameron (Italian title: "Decameron" or "Decamerone"), subtitled "Prince Galehaut" (Old Prencipe Galeotto and sometimes nicknamed "Umana commedia", "Human comedy"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375).
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The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul
The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul (or The Conuersyon of Seynt Paule) is a Middle English miracle play of the late fifteenth century.
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The Heir of Redclyffe
The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) was the first of Charlotte M. Yonge's bestselling romantic novels.
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The Heritage Press
The Heritage Press was an imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., from 1937 to 1982.
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The House of the Dead (novel)
The House of the Dead (Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp.
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The Moor of Peter the Great
The Moor of Peter the Great («Арап Петра Великого», Arap Petra Velikogo, literally The Arap of Peter the Great, also translated as The Blackamoor of Peter the Great or The Negro of Peter the Great) is an unfinished historical novel by Alexander Pushkin.
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son (1859) is the earliest full-length novel by George Meredith; its subject is the inability of systems of education to control human passions.
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The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy
"The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima.
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The Trial
The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925.
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The Virginians
The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century (1857–59) is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which forms a sequel to his Henry Esmond and is also loosely linked to Pendennis.
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The Wheels of Chance
The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat.
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Thebes at War
Thebes at War is an early novel by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.
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Too Far to Go
Too Far to Go is a collection of short stories by the American author John Updike published in 1979 in conjunction with the showing of a two-hour television movie on the NBC network with Blythe Danner, Michael Moriarty, Kathryn Walker and Glenn Close.
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Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.
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Urðarbrunnr
Urðarbrunnr (Old Norse "Well of Urðr"; either referring to a Germanic concept of fate—urðr—or the norn named UrðrSimek (2007:342).) is a well in Norse mythology.
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Valhalla
In Norse mythology, Valhalla (from Old Norse Valhöll "hall of the slain")Orchard (1997:171–172).
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Valkyrie
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live.
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Vanir
In Norse mythology, the Vanir (singular Vanr) are a group of gods associated with fertility, wisdom, and the ability to see the future.
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Víðarr
In Norse mythology, Víðarr (Old Norse, possibly "wide ruler",Orchard (1997:174—175). sometimes anglicized as Vidar, Vithar, Vidarr, and Vitharr) is a god among the Æsir associated with vengeance.
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Vígríðr
In Norse mythology, Vígríðr or Óskópnir is a large field foretold to host a battle between the forces of the gods and the forces of Surtr as part of the events of Ragnarök.
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Veronese (typeface)
Veronese (series 59) was a typeface of the Monotype company in the UK made to be used for type casting in hot metal typography It was cut in 1911 for the publisher J. M. Dent, the owner of the Everyman's Library.
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Viscum album
Viscum album is a species of mistletoe in the family Santalaceae, commonly known as European mistletoe, common mistletoe or simply as mistletoe (Old English mistle).
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Walter Jerrold
Walter Copeland Jerrold (1865–1929) was an English writer, biographer and newspaper editor.
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Walter Pater
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists.
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Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (or; circa 155429 October 1618) was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (established 1948), often shortened to W&N or Weidenfeld, is a British publisher of fiction and reference books.
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Western canon
The Western canon is the body of Western literature, European classical music, philosophy, and works of art that represents the high culture of Europe and North America: "a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature".
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White horse (mythology)
White horses have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world.
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William M. Hutchins
William Maynard Hutchins (born October 11, 1944) is an American academic, author and translator of contemporary Arabic literature.
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William R. Thompson
William Robin Thompson (June 29, 1887 - January 30, 1972) was a Canadian entomologist and philosopher.
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William Sharington
Sir William Sharington (born in around 1495, died before 6 July 1553) was an English courtier of the time of Henry VIII, master and embezzler of the Bristol Mint, member of parliament, conspirator, and High Sheriff of Wiltshire.
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Wisdom
Wisdom or sapience is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight, especially in a mature or utilitarian manner.
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Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil (or; from Old Norse Yggdrasill, pronounced) is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology.
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Ymir
In Norse mythology, Ymir, Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn is the ancestor of all jötnar.
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Yule
Yule or Yuletide ("Yule time") was and is a festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples.
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Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion) is an Arthurian romance by French poet Chrétien de Troyes.
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Ywain
Sir Ywain, also called Yvain, Owain, Uwain, or Ewain, is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, wherein he is often the son of King Urien of Gorre and the sorceress Morgan le Fay.
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1763 in Scotland
Events from the year 1763 in Scotland.
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1906 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1906.
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1906 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom.
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1906 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1906 to Wales and its people.
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1946 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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