Oxford dictionary of Reference and Allusions
Print Book, English, 2012
Third edition View all formats and editions
Oxford University Press, Oxford, Ox, 2012
Dictionaries
ix, 406 páginas ; 20 cm.
9780199567461, 0199567468
1089576023
Understand references from literature, film, and the classics that we come across every day in this Aladdin's Cave of expressions. This absorbing dictionary tales you on a journey through culture, succinctly summarizing the meanings and origins of hundreds of references, from Adonis to Zorro, and Rubens to Rambo