What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?

This reference book asks the reader to name the members of famous cultural sets, then explains each set in a short essay. Questions are grouped by number: three laws or Furies, four horsemen, five pillars of Islam, six wives of Henry VIII, seven ancient wonders, and further canonical lists from myth, scripture, history, science, art, and music. Each answer names the items and places the grouping in its larger context. There is no continuous thesis and no single period. The book is a compendium of lists with commentary, not a history of the Seven Wonders alone and not a bare quiz pamphlet.

Bound in black quarter buckram with printed paper sides. Black slipcase.