The reader's encyclopedia, an encyclopedia of world literature and the arts, with supplement. / Edited by William Rose Benét.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Dictionaries.

Literature.

Art--Dictionaries.

Art.

Music--Dictionaries.

Music.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1270 pages ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Binghamton, New York : Manufactured by the Vail-Ballou Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1955]

Notes:

"Special Features. 1. plots and characters of novels and plays; 2. biographies of American and foreign authors, playwrights, poets, artists, musicians from antiquity to the present day; 3. biographies of famous scientists; historians; statesmen, philosophers, military men, actors and other great and near great of all times; 4. mythological allusions; 5. current and slang terms; 6. modern trends in literature (Joyce, Sartre, Kafka, Mann); 7. resumés of poems; 8. historical references; 9. geographical references; 10. classical and Biblical allusions; 11. musical compositions; 12. famous work of art. 19,088 articles, 1270 pages"--Dust jacket.

Text printed in double-columns.

Local Notes:

Porok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy was library book ("This item purchased by Friends of the Broward County Library for Book Sale") with "Withdrawn" stamped on front free endpaper and other stamped statements covered with black ink. Back free endpaper wanting. Plastic cover over regular dust jacket.

Potok Collection copy is "Tenth Printing, March, 1963".

Other Format:

Online version: Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950. Reader's encyclopedia.

OCLC:

325257