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Title Brewer's curious titles : the fascinating story behind more than 1500 titles / [compiled by Ian Crofton]
Published London, England : Cassell, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 548 pages)
Contents Angels -- Animals: A Brief Taxonomic Tour -- Birds -- Blue -- Body Parts -- Bridges -- Cats and their Relatives -- Chess -- Compass Points -- Creation -- Dance of Death -- Days of the Week -- Death and the Maiden -- Dogs and their Relatives -- Don Juan -- Drink -- Endymion -- Faust or Faustus -- Fish -- Flowers -- Food -- Francesca da Rimini -- Gardens -- Green -- Insects and Arachnids -- I Was a ... and I Married a ... -- Letters, Symbols and Initials -- The Little Book of ... -- London Places -- Long Titles -- Meals -- Meteorology -- Monosyllabic Titles -- Months -- Musical Instruments -- Numbers -- The Oddest Title of the Year Award -- Prometheus -- Punch -- Red and Scarlet -- Robert le Diable -- St Cecilia -- Salome -- Scatology -- The Seasons and The Four Seasons -- Streets -- Till Eulenspiegel -- Times of Day -- A Time to ... -- Towns and Cities -- Undine -- US States -- Writers, Artists and Composers
Notes Title from title screen (viewed June 22, 2007)
Includes indexes
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Subject Titles of publications -- Dictionaries
Titles of works of art -- Dictionaries
Titles of motion pictures -- Dictionaries
Titles of musical compositions -- Dictionaries
Titles of motion pictures
Titles of musical compositions
Titles of publications
Titles of works of art
Genre/Form Dictionaries
Form Electronic book
Author Crofton, Ian.
ISBN 9780304361304
0304361305
1849721815
9781849721813
Other Titles Curious titles