Have you ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower, perhaps?) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? What exactly do we mean when we describe a scene as Dickensian, or when we call a politician€™s style Churchillian or Thatcherite? What would you call a romantic, brooding, dangerous, and untamed person? Heathcliffian? Byronesque? How about a situation that is nightmarish, torturously bureaucratic, and impossible to escape from? Kafkaesque, maybe? Is Nixonian or Gandalf-like part of your vocabulary? There are hundreds of words derived from real people who are famous---or infamous---enough to give their stamp to a movement, a way of thinking or acting, a style or even a mood. Name Dropping is the essential guide to the better known or more intriguing of these terms from figures in politics, sports, and the arts, as well as history and the classics. It is both for those readers looking for definitions or simply browsing for plea

Name Dropping: Darwinian Struggles, Oedipal Feelings, and Kafkaesque Ordeals---an A to Z Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language

Humor & Entertainment

GOODEN, PHILIP

Humor

St.Martin's Press

'BRODIE'S NOTES ON JOHN OSBORNE'S ''LUTHER'''

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Pan Books

You'll never again confuse affect and effect! Have you ever been fazed by the spelling of phased, or fretted over the difference between anxiety and angst, stationery and stationary? If so, you are not alone: the English language is a minefield, full of words that look and sound alike but mean different things in different places. "Who's Whose? is an entertaining and essential A to Z guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal clear. In addition to documenting these verbal confusions, it offers a sympathetic guide to the seriousness of each gaffe (the Embarassment rating), an explanation of why it happens, and some handy hints on how to avoid it in future. With "Who's Whose in your corner, you'll never again mistake a principle for a principal.

Who's Whose?

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

A&C Black

'Faux Pas' focuses on familiar terms and expressions which have been absorbed into the English language from abroad, as well as those that are new, curious or amusing. Each expression is 'translated' with an indication of origin and pronunciation, a comment on its use and a 'pretentiousness' index.

Faux Pas

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Who's Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear. The Embarrassment Ratinginvolved in each mistake is included, together with an explanation ofwhy the confusion happens and how to avoid it in the future.Soif you mistrust (or distrust?) your spellchecker and want to maintainor improve your written English, this is the perfect companion for you.

Who's Whose? (Who's Whose? a No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words)

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

A&C Black Academic and Professional

Second in the gripping new 19th century ‘Cathedral’ murder mystery series from the acclaimed author of the ‘Nick Revill’ mysteries - For the newly-weds Tom and Helen Ansell life is no honeymoon, as they are drawn into a murky underworld of Victorian spiritualism and stage magic when they’re sent on a mission to the stunning cathedral city of Durham. Not only must they investigate Helen’s Aunt Julia, who has mysteriously fallen for a medium, but also solve the riddle of the sinister Lucknow dagger. Until suddenly things go from bad to worse when a body turns up and Helen herself is accused of murder.

Durham Deception The (A Tom Ansell Historical Mystery, 2)

British & Irish

Severn House

Third in the highly-acclaimed nineteenth-century ‘Cathedral’ mystery series When Mr Lye, an elderly partner at Tom Ansell’s law firm, drops dead at his desk, Tom is dispatched to Ely to search for Mr Lye’s will at Phoenix House, the home of his brother, Ernest. At the same time, Tom’s wife Helen has been commissioned by New Moon magazine to write a piece on a town with ‘inner beauty’ – and what better place than Ely? But shortly after they arrive at Phoenix House, their host is arrested for murder – and Tom and Helen find themselves at the centre of an ever-deepening mystery.

Ely Testament (A Tom Ansell Historical Mystery, 3)

Second in the gripping new 19th century ‘Cathedral’ murder mystery series from the acclaimed author of the ‘Nick Revill’ mysteries - For the newly-weds Tom and Helen Ansell life is no honeymoon, as they are drawn into a murky underworld of Victorian spiritualism and stage magic when they’re sent on a mission to the stunning cathedral city of Durham. Not only must they investigate Helen’s Aunt Julia, who has mysteriously fallen for a medium, but also solve the riddle of the sinister Lucknow dagger. Until suddenly things go from bad to worse when a body turns up and Helen herself is accused of murder.

Compliment or complement? Stationary or stationery? This entertaining and sympathetic (or empathetic?) A-Z guide lists common mistakes, with their Embarrassment Rating, an explanation of why they are troublesome and tips on how to avoid perpetrating (or perpetuating?) them.

Who's Whose? : A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Bloomsbury Publishing

Mystery is bred of history and collides with literature in this new novel featuring Nick Revill, a fledgling detective and an aspiring young actor attached, like William Shakespeare, to the theatrical company known as the Chamberlain's Men. The political atmosphere in the London of 1601 is fraught with conspiracy and treason, as the aging, childless Queen Elizabeth nears the end of her long reign -- with no direct heir to the British crown. While the Queen's former favorite, the Earl of Essex, plots to protect her throne, his enemies, believing he plans to seize the royal office for himself, hatch counterplots. Intrigue is rife, rebellion is afoot. The Chamberlain's Men, meanwhile, at the request of one of Essex's supporters, are staging William Shakespeare's Richard II, which recounts a monarch's murder, and Nick Revill finds himself not only performing in a play but also acting as a spy for the government. When some of his closest companions in the cast begin dying in bizarre and unfortunate ways -- by drowning in a witch's cauldron, for instance -- Nick realizes it will soon be curtains for himself unless he can finger the culprit in the company and figure out who is the mastermind behind the Essex rebellion.

Death of Kings (Shakespearean Murder Mysteries, No. 2)

Literary

Carroll&Graf

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Books by GOODEN, PHILIP

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Name Dropping: Darwinian Struggles, Oedipal Feelings, and Kafkaesque Ordeals---an A to Z Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language

'BRODIE'S NOTES ON JOHN OSBORNE'S ''LUTHER'''

Who's Whose?

Faux Pas

Who's Whose? (Who's Whose? a No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words)

Durham Deception The (A Tom Ansell Historical Mystery, 2)

Ely Testament (A Tom Ansell Historical Mystery, 3)

Durham Deception The (A Tom Ansell Historical Mystery, 2)

Who's Whose? : A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words

Death of Kings (Shakespearean Murder Mysteries, No. 2)