Lexikon der Weltliteratur
Subtitle: Autoren - Werke - Begriffe
By: Hermann Pongs
Publisher: Pattloch Verlag
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: ger
Subjects: Literature; Dictionaries; German; Bio-bibliography
Description: Includes individual authors (Balzac, Bukowski, Anthony Burgess), rhetorical terms (chiasmus) and entries under individual titles (Dantons Tod) and subjects (Emigrantenliteratur) but excludes critics (no Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken). Typical entries ca. 300-500 words. Brief bibliographies are chiefly confined to works in the German language.
Table of contents: title: Bd. 1. A-E; title: Bd. 2. F-M; title: Bd. 3. M-Z.