Dryasdust, Dr Jonas
Dryasdust, Dr Jonas a fictional antiquarian to whom Sir Walter Scott pretended to dedicate Ivanhoe (1819) and other novels; from this, a writer or student of antiquities, history, or statistics, who is concerned with the driest and most uninteresting details.
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Walter Scott , Scott, Walter
BORN: 1771, Edinburgh, Scotland
DIED: 1832, Abbotsford, Scotland
NATIONALITY: Scottish
GENRE: Fiction, poetry
Overview
Modern scholars… Sir Walter Scott , The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the acknowledged master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential au… Ivanhoe , Ivanhoe
THE LITERARY WORK
A novel set in twelfth-century England; published in 1820.
SYNOPSIS
The knight Ivanhoe returns home from the Crusades to fi… Icosahedron , i·co·sa·he·dron / īˌkōsəˈhēdrən; īˌkäsə-/ • n. (pl. -drons or -dra / -drə/ ) a solid figure with twenty plane faces, esp. equilateral triangular ones… Hydrography , hy·drog·ra·phy / hīˈdrägrəfē/ • n. the science of surveying and charting bodies of water, such as seas, lakes, and rivers. DERIVATIVES: hy·drog·ra·ph… Droll , droll •barcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, dole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, hole, Joel, kn…
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