The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations |
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| Editor:
| Knowles, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | Oxford Quick Reference Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-954746-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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Spanning a century and containing more than 5,000 quotations from authors as diverse as Bertolt Brecht, George W. Bush, Carl Sagan, William Shatner, and Desmond Tutu, this dictionary is organized alphabetically by author, with generous cross-referencing and keyword and thematic indexes. This new edition features more than 500 new quotations and 187 new authors. The book includes special sections featuring quotations from cartoons, famous last words, misquotations, newspaper headlines...
More DescriptionSpanning a century and containing more than 5,000 quotations from authors as diverse as Bertolt Brecht, George W. Bush, Carl Sagan, William Shatner, and Desmond Tutu, this dictionary is organized alphabetically by author, with generous cross-referencing and keyword and thematic indexes. This new edition features more than 500 new quotations and 187 new authors. The book includes special sections featuring quotations from cartoons, famous last words, misquotations, newspaper headlines and more. Finally, this edition now uses the largest ongoing language research program in the world, the Oxford English Corpus, to ensure the volume's accuracy.