Cuddon, J. A

Defines over 2,000 literary terms and theories, arranged alphabetically from Abbey Theatre to zeugma, and focusing on twelve areas which include technical terms, genres or kinds, well-known phrases, personalities, and concepts.

33 shost stories representing the last 180 year. Authors include: Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Walter Scott, Alexander Pushkin, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Sheridan LeFanu. Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Emile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, A.J. Alan, H.G. Wells, E.F. Benson, A.M. Burrage, Edith Wharton, Thomas Mann, Ann Bridge, Marghanita Laski, Mario Soldati, Ray Bradbury, Edward Hyams, Muriel Spark, Fielden Hughes, Joan Aiken, Elizabeth Walter, George Mackay Brown, Penelope Fitzgerald, Alain Danielou, A.S. Byatt.

Alphabetically-arranged entries define more than 2,000 literary terms and explain their meaning with quotations and illustrations from world literature of the past and present.