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Name
  
Leonard N.


Role
  
Writer

Books
  
The Complete Book of S, The Complete Book of D, Elizabethan Popular Culture, The Complete Book of S, The Complete Book of V

The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes


Leonard R. N. Ashley (born December 5, 1928 in Miami) is an American writer on the English language. He was for many years professor of English at Brooklyn College.

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He served as secretary of the International Linguistic Society (1980 - 1982) and later on its board, was vice-president of Amici Linguarum, and participated in the International Conference on Onomastic Sciences in Europe. Aside from more traditional works on English drama. fiction, and poetry, and books on onomastics and geolinguistics, he is also known for his series of popular dictionaries of the occult.

English literature and linguistics

  • George Peele: The Man and His Work
  • Colley Cibber
  • Authorship and Evidence in Renaissance Drama
  • Unhappy all the time": Religion in Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers
  • What I Know About You: 100 Lesbian & Gay New York Voices (novel and play)
  • Cornish Names
  • What's in a Name?: Everything You Wanted to Know (1989, revised 1995)
  • Mexico: The Smart Traveler's Guide to All the Names
  • George Alfred Henty and the Victorian Mind
  • Spenser's Ideal of the Gentleman
  • Geolinguistic Perspectives (ed., with Jesse Levitt & Kenneth H. Rogers)
  • Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" Book of The Military
  • Language and Modern Society
    • Language and the New Technology
  • Language in Action
  • Living Language
  • History of the Short Story
  • Art Attack: Names in Satire
  • A Garland of Names (with Wayne H. Finke, eds.)
  • Names of Places
  • Names in Literature
  • Names in Popular Culture
  • Animal Crackers (verse) and Poetry in Various Periodicals
  • The Complete Book of Devils and Demons
  • The Complete Book of Vampires
  • The Complete Book of the Devil's Disciples
  • The Complete Book of Spells, Curses and Magical Recipes
  • The Complete Book of Ghosts and Poltergeists
  • The Complete Book of Werewolves
  • The Complete Book of Sex Magic
  • The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft (2 German editions)
  • The Amazing World Of Superstition
  • The Complete Book of Superstition, Prophecy and Luck (also in Dutch)
  • Ripley's Believe it Or Not! Book of the Military
  • The Complete Book of Numerology (also in Italian)
  • The Complete book of Dreams and What They Mean
  • The Wonderful World of Superstition, Prophecy, and Luck
  • Tales of Mystery and Melodrama
  • Halloween
  • Last Days: The Messiah, The Apocalypse, The Rapture, The Last Judgment

    • Folklore

  • Elizabethan Popular Culture
  • Nordic Folklore and Tradition (with Ola J. Holten)

    • Textbooks, translations, conference proceedings

  • Other People's Lives
  • Mirrors for Man; 26 Plays of the World Drama
  • 6 Plays of World Drama (Taiwan)
  • Nineteenth-Century British Drama (Scott, Foresman reprinted revised by University Press of America)
  • British Short Stories: Classics and Criticism (with Stuart L. AstorTales of Mystery and MelodramaAmerica: Naming the Country and Its People, Allen Walter Read, ed. L. R. N. Ashley)

    • Colonial American English (Richard Lederer, ed. Ashley) A Garland of Names (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (ed. Ashley) Ballad Poetry of Ireland (ed. Ashley) Geolinguistic Perspectived (ed. Ashley, Kenneth H. Rogers, Jesse Levitt) Phantasms of the Living 2 vols., Myers, Podmore, Gurney, ed. Ashley) Reliques of Irish Poetry (ed. Asdhley) Shakespeare's Jest Book (ed. Ashley) Suhrab and Rustum (ed. Ashley) Constructed Language and Language Construction (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) Language across Border (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) Language and Communication in the New Century (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) Language4 and Identity (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) Language and Poliricws (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) Language and Popular Culture (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) Language in Contemporary Society (ed with Wayne H. Finke) Language in the Era of Globalization (ed. with Wayne H. Finke) Language under Controls (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)

    References

    Leonard R. N. Ashley Wikipedia
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