Author: Henry Frederic Reddall
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ISBN: 9781504247719
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Pages : 538
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Hardcover reprint of the original 1889 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Reddall, Henry Frederic. Fact, Fancy, And Fable; A New Handbook For Ready Reference On Subjects Commonly Omitted From Cyclopaedias; Comprising Personal Sobriquets, Familiar Phrases, Popular Appellations, Geographical Nicknames, Literary Pseudonyms, Mythological Characters, Red-Letter Days, Political Slang, Contractions And Abbreviations, Technical Terms, Foreign Words And Phrases, Americanisms, Etc. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Reddall, Henry Frederic. Fact, Fancy, And Fable; A New Handbook For Ready Reference On Subjects Commonly Omitted From Cyclopaedias; Comprising Personal Sobriquets, Familiar Phrases, Popular Appellations, Geographical Nicknames, Literary Pseudonyms, Mythological Characters, Red-Letter Days, Political Slang, Contractions And Abbreviations, Technical Terms, Foreign Words And Phrases, Americanisms, Etc, . Chicago, A. C. Mcclurg, 1889. Subject: English Language
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Author: Henry Frederick Reddall
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Category : English language
Languages : en
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Author: Henry Frederic Reddall
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353861063
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Henry Frederic Reddall
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ISBN: 9781331100768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Excerpt from Fact, Fancy, and Fable In the words of John Dryden, "Some will think this book needs no excuse, and others will receive none;" but for those who belong to neither class, and who judge the work on its merits, a few words of introduction and explanation seem necessary. Not the least of the problems connected with the compilation of a work having a distinct plan, and bearing such a title as "Fact, Fancy, and Fable," is to decide what to admit and what to exclude. Occasionally there must needs be a deviation from the set rule; yet in the main the lines of selection will be found to be clearly laid down and closely adhered to. Approximately, our "Fact" embraces Americanisms, Memorable Days, Pseudonyms, Political Nomenclature, Foreign Words and Sentences, and Contractions and Abbreviations; "Fancy" deals with Personal Sobriquets and Nicknames of all kinds, and with Familiar Phrases and Folk-Sayings; while the realm of the purely mythological belongs to "Fable." The wholly fictitious characters of satires and novels and of romance and poetry, which consume so large a portion of the works of Wheeler and Brewer, and must ever be of secondary popular interest, have been reserved for a future compilation, should the same be deemed advisable. Only where a nominally fictitious character is a portraiture or a burlesque of a real personage has the reference been admitted here. A glance at the scheme of "Fact, Fancy, and Fable," outlined on the titlepage, will enable the reader to form some idea of the scope of the work. Briefly stated, the aim of the author has been to amass a great amount of useful or curious information which has hitherto been either inaccessible to the general reader or so widely scattered among a score or more of different volumes as to be practically unattainable when most needed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: William Henry Pinkney Phyfe
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Author: Mary Mapes Dodge
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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