Brewer's curious titles Curious titles. compiled by Ian Crofton. - London [Eng.] : Cassell, 2002 - 1 online resource (1481 entries) : 1 image, digital files.

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.

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"Find the origins of obscure titles of over 1,500 films, novels, plays, paintings, and musical compositions."--Publisher's description.


Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781849721813 (online)




Titles of publications--Dictionaries.
Titles of works of art--Dictionaries.
Titles of motion pictures--Dictionaries.
Titles of musical compositions--Dictionaries.

Z1002 / .B8 2002