Much loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable takes you on a captivating adventure through its trademark blend of language, culture, myth and legend.

Contains entries on major philosophers from ancient to contemporary. Covers fields such as the philosophy of mind and applied ethics. International in scope.

Covers all major and many minor religions including movements, sects, and cults. Includes sacred writings and biographies of founders, leaders, gurus, philosophers, mystics, and heretics. Provides details of sacred sites, customs, religious practices, dogmas, beliefs, traditions, festivals and fasts, and artifacts.

The essential guide to the languages of the world, comprehensively detailing languages in a clear A-Z style.

Covers phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Contains table of abbreviations, table of symbols, and updated International Phonetic Alphabet.

Explains and illustrates the literary symbols (such as swan, rose, moon, gold). Offers cross-references and quotations.

Covers gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and spirits of African and American continents. Offers myths from around the globe.

Guide to authors and their works. Focuses on general canon of British literature from the fifteenth-century to the present. Some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science. Includes major American and Commonwealth writers.

The full text of the fourth edition of this classic work, published in 2012.

Covers traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history. Defines new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements.

With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions.

Provides the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject including history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, and critical terms.

Offering a series of brief essays rather than strict ‘definitions’, chapters illuminate the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition – from canonical figures including Baudrillard, Jameson, and Lyotard, to the concepts of deconstruction, metanarrative, and simulation – alongside less canonical topics ranging from dialogue to punk.