Encyclopedia of World Literature (1970–1996)

The World Literature Dictionary is a large Hungarian encyclopedia published in the second half of the 20th century.

The work, consisting of several thousand pages (set into double-column pages), was published in 19 volumes in Budapest between 1970 and 1996, by the Akadémiai Kiadó. Its editors-in-chief were István Király and István Szerdahelyi. The work is a serious scientific achievement not only in the Hungarian language, but also in world terms: it contains thousands of writers, literary works, and literary concepts with significant source references. The work is available electronically for a fee from the Arcanum Kft. website.

The length of the work is 15,742 pages in 19 volume.


Volume Number	Volume title	Volume year
Volume I	A–Cal	1970
Volume II	Cam–E	1972
Volume III	F–Groc	1975
Volume IV	Grog–Ilv	1975
Volume V	Im–Kamb	1977
Volume VI	Kamc–Lane	1979
Volume VII	Lanf–Marg	1982
Volume VIII	Mari–My	1982
Volume IX	N–O	1984
Volume X	P–Praga	1986


Volume Number	Volume title	Volume year
Volume XI	Pragm–Rizz	1989
Volume XII	Rjab–Sez	1991
Volume XIII	Sf–Suzuki	1992
Volume XIV	Sváb–Szy	1992
Volume XV	Taa–Tz	1993
Volume XVI	U–Vidz	1994
Volume XVII	Vie–Y	1994
Volume XVIII	Z–Index	1994
Volume XIX	Supplementary volume (A–Z)	1996

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