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21Washington Square (novel) — infobox Book | name = Washington Square title orig = translator = image caption = 1880 first edition cover of Washington Square author = Henry James illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom, United States language = English series =… …
22Clarel — Clarel: 1991 single volume hardcover edn. Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 …
23The Grotesque (novel) — Infobox Book | name = The Grotesque title orig = translator = image caption = 1st edition cover author = Patrick McGrath illustrator = cover artist = country = flagicon|UK United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Gothic novel publisher …
24United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
25Crane, Stephen — born Nov. 1, 1871, Newark, N.J., U.S. died June 5, 1900, Badenweiler, Baden, Ger. U.S. novelist and short story writer. Crane briefly attended college before moving to New York City. His Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), a sympathetic study… …
26James, William — born Jan. 11, 1842, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Aug. 26, 1910, Chocorua, N.H. U.S. philosopher and psychologist. Son of the philosophical writer Henry James (1811–82) and brother of the novelist Henry James, he studied medicine at Harvard, where he …
27Thackeray, William Makepeace — born July 18, 1811, Calcutta, India died Dec. 24, 1863, London, Eng. English novelist. He studied law and art but soon became a prolific writer for periodicals, using a variety of pen names. His early writings appear in such volumes as The Book… …
28globalization, cultural — ▪ anthropology Introduction a phenomenon by which the experience of everyday life, as influenced by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, reflects a standardization of cultural expressions around the world. Propelled by the efficiency or… …
29Thirkell, Angela — ▪ British writer born , Jan. 30, 1890, London died Jan. 29, 1961, Bramley, Surrey, Eng. author of more than 30 lighthearted novels about English middle and upper class life in Barsetshire dealing with descendants of characters in Anthony… …
30asteism — noun Polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another …
