About this title: This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
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Binding: Thick Softcover
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
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Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Date Published: 1995
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date Published: 1993
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date Published: 1993
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Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date Published: 1993
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date Published: 24/06/1993
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date Published: 24/06/1993
ISBN-13:9781853263002ISBN:1853263001
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