Dictionaries, indexes
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
The C.S. Lewis handbook
Some account of the life and writings of John Milton
Encyclopedia of literature
A Mark Twain lexicon
An index to the works of Shakespeare
The Charles Dickens Encyclopedia
John Dewey, the collected works, 1882-1953, general editor, Jo Ann Boydston
Sein und Zeit
A Dickens dictionary
The Eugene O'Neill companion
What Luther says
Dickens's England
A guide to Middle-earth
The Bernard Shaw companion
The unabridged Marilyn
A dictionary of non-classical mythology
Freud
A character index and guide to the fiction of Iris Murdoch
The reader's encyclopedia
Heroes and heroines of fiction
Music in the integrated social program of the modern school
Dictionary of world literature
The Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia
The facts about Shakespeare
A glossary
The Gilbert and Sullivan lexicon in which is gilded the philosophic pill
Complete glossary to the poetry and prose of Robert Burns
The Shakespeare key
Shakespeare-lexicon
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