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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet. Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, [1] [2] resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute ...
Beautiful World, Where Are You: Sally Rooney: Friedrich Schiller, "The Gods of Greece" Behold the Man: Michael Moorcock: Bible: John 19:5: Beneath the Bleeding: Val McDermid: T. S. Eliot, East Coker: Beyond the Mexique Bay: Aldous Huxley: Andrew Marvell, "Bermudas" Blithe Spirit: Noël Coward: Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" Blood's a ...
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 by Field Enterprises under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and ...
The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time: 1995 New York Times Book Review: New York Times 100 Notable Books: annually: The New York Times: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: 2024 [4] Norwegian Book Club: Bokklubben World Library: since 2002 Nimbus Publishing: Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books: 2008 Tidningen Boken: Världsbiblioteket: 1991 Time
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
This is a list of books released for World Book Day in the UK and Ireland.In 1998 and 1999 a specially created WBD anthology priced at £1 (€1.50 in Ireland) was published.