Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia

Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia is a reference work devoted to world literature.

Benét set out to "present to [the reader] a well-organized supplementary memory, in one volume".

[1] The encyclopedia was based on Ebenezer Cobham Brewer's classic Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and offered a compendium of curious information (such as "Aani.

Jeppe Aakjaer, for instance, appears as a novelist who "was intensely concerned with social misery and the need for reform," though he is "best known" for his "lyric poetry, in which he celebrates the courage of the peasants and the beauties of his native Jutland."

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