From Chaucer to Chatwin, this guide presents characters from novels, plays and poems in vivid summaries. It contains more than 6,500 detailed entries, and is fully cross-referenced
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Thoroughly updated and expanded, this definitive bilingual French-English/English-French dictionary features more than 250,000 entries and 400,000 translations, accompaned by numerous illustrations; a bilingual atlas; coverage of Canadian, Belgian, and Swiss French; sidebars on French life and culture; and models for letters, faxes, and e-mails.
An all-new edition of the ultimate Spanish-English dictionary for advanced speakers and students of Spanish--now with a two-color design throughout.The "Larousse Unabridged Dictinary", the cornerstone of the Larousse bilingual line, is an in-depth reference specially designed to help translators, students, and teachers translate into or out of either language clearly and easily. This authoritative reference is packed with useful features:*More than 255,000 words and phrases*More than 405,000 translations*Updated addition of neologisms, colloquialisms, and business terms*New ull-color cultural supplement*Clean new design
Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scarifying portraits, Van Gogh's vigorous color, and Virginia Woolf's modern feminism: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 artists, writers, and musicians from around the world. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, showing how their luminous achievements influenced and guided contemporary and future generations, shaped the internal and external perceptions of their craft, and met the sensibilities of their audience.