The City A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life |
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| Author:
| Clapp, James A. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4128-4835-0 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | Transaction Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $132.00 |
Book Description:
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The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged, with excellent woodcut illustrations, more than three thousand quotations - epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical observations - on urban life from antiquity until the present. These quotes are drawn from the written and spoken words of more than one thousand writers...
More DescriptionThe City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged, with excellent woodcut illustrations, more than three thousand quotations - epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical observations - on urban life from antiquity until the present. These quotes are drawn from the written and spoken words of more than one thousand writers throughout history.