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The Duchess of Malfi's apricots, and other literary fruits / Robert Palter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palter, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fruit in literature.
- Fruit.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 872 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Apples
- Figs
- Missing fruit
- Strawberries (and cream)
- Plums
- The flowering plum : a Chinese interlude
- Peaches, mangoes, and other juicy fruits
- Bananas
- Apricots : ripe and unripe
- Pits and seeds
- Medlars : the ripe and the rotten
- Pomegranates
- Quinces and pears
- Pineapples
- Citrus fruits
- Melons and papayas
- Cherries
- Grapes
- Wine
- Orchards, groves, gardens
- Fruit, conjoined and disjoined
- Enemies and friends of fruit
- Berries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [739]-819) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1570034176
- OCLC:
- 47183454
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