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Dollar sign, denoting ‘all the signatures’; used in collational formulas with a figure indicating number of signed leaves per gathering in a book.
1848
The most celebrated and widespread of the 19th-c. European revolutions proved also a crucial turning point in the Italian Risorgimento. Beginning with an insurrection in Palermo in January, ...
1915
A novel by Roger McDonald, was first published in 1979, and won the Age Book of the Year and the SA biennial literature awards; in 1982 a seven-part adaptation by ...
1919
Novel by Dos Passos published in 1932. It is the second in the trilogy U.S.A. (collected 1938), including The 42nd Parallel (1930) and The Big Money (1936). Interspersed in the narrative are brief ...
1968
Was the year of protest par excellence. As in 1848, social revolt spread through the peninsula while also taking place in other countries, as movements from below challenged centres of ...
900
(Novecento)(1926–9).Literary journal founded in Rome by Curzio Malaparte and Massimo Bontempelli, though Malaparte quickly lost interest. It initially appeared as a quarterly in French (it had an ...
A. A. (August Aimé) Balkema
(1906–96) Dutch publisherwho established his company in South Africa in 1946. His list included belles-lettres (sold to Human & Rousseau in 1962) and non-fiction (natural and cultural heritage). The ...
A. A. M. (Alexander Alphonse Marius) Stols
(1900–1973) Dutch publisher.A major representative of the new Dutch typographic style, Stols combined his commercial publishing activities with fine printing at his private Halcyon Press. He was a ...
A. A. Milne
(1882–1956)British writer, noted especially for his ever-popular children's books and his plays.After attending Westminster School and reading mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, Milne found ...
A. (Arthur) Bertram Chandler
(1912–84),born Aldershot, England, spent most of his young manhood sailing the world in tramp and passenger steamers. He emigrated to Australia in 1956 and commanded vessels of Australia and ...
A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
(1901–1991) American novelistThe Big Sky (1947) FictionThe Way West (1949) FictionShane (1951) FictionThese Thousand Hills (1956) FictionArfive (1971) FictionWild Pitch (1973) FictionThe Big Sky ...
A. B. Spellman
(b. 1935), poet, music critic and historian, and arts administrator.Alfred B. Spellman has cut a wide swath in the world of the arts as a music critic, poet, administrator, and educator. “It's a ...
A. C. Benson
(1862–1925),eldest surviving son of E. W. Benson (1829–96), archbishop of Canterbury, and brother of E. F. and R. H. Benson. He published many volumes of biography, family reminiscences, reflection, ...
A. C. Bradley
(1851–1935),brother of F. H. Bradley, was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1901 to 1906. He is particularly remembered for his contributions to Shakespearian scholarship; his best‐known works are ...
A. C. Fox-Davies
(1871–1928) married (1901) Mary E. B. Crookes.A barrister, born in Bristol and educated in Yorkshire, Fox-Davies was in his time one of the greatest experts on English heraldry and ...
A. C. Inchbold
Published eight novels between 1899 and 1920, including five in the period. Two of these are historical romances: The Letter Killeth (1905), set in Sussex in the early nineteenth century ...
A. D. Godley
(1856–1925),British poet and classicist, born in Co. Leitrim, educated at Balliol College, Oxford; he became a fellow and tutor of Magdalen College. In 1910 he was appointed public orator ...
A. D. Hope
(1907–2000),Australian poet, born in New South Wales, and educated at the universities of Sydney and Oxford. His first collection, The Wandering Islands (1955), was followed by Poems (1960) and ...
A. E. Coppard
(1878–1957),poet and short story writer. His first collection of short stories, Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (1921), established his name. Hips and Haws (1922) was his first collection of verse, and ...
A. E. Ellis
(1920–2000)The pseudonym of Derek Lindsay, author of The Rack (1958), a novel—much indebted to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924)—set in a sanatorium in the French Alps after the ...
