The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern
Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Quotations
ISBN : 9780396025337
Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Quotations
ISBN : 9780396025337
Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
Page : 2920 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Reference
ISBN :
This tenth revised edition contains almost 75,000 quotations from nearly 5000 authors, arranged by subject, and indexed.
Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Quotations
ISBN : 9780517431306
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Quotations
ISBN :
Author : Burton Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Quotations
ISBN : 9780304928408
Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1429906170
Our language is full of hundreds of quotations that are often cited but seldom confirmed. Ralph Keyes's The Quote Verifier considers not only classic misquotes such as "Nice guys finish last," and "Play it again, Sam," but more surprising ones such as "Ain't I a woman?" and "Golf is a good walk spoiled," as well as the origins of popular sayings such as "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings," "No one washes a rented car," and "Make my day." Keyes's in-depth research routinely confounds widespread assumptions about who said what, where, and when. Organized in easy-to-access dictionary form, The Quote Verifier also contains special sections highlighting commonly misquoted people and genres, such as Yogi Berra and Oscar Wilde, famous last words, and misremembered movie lines. An invaluable resource for not just those with a professional need to quote accurately, but anyone at all who is interested in the roots of words and phrases, The Quote Verifier is not only a fascinating piece of literary sleuthing, but also a great read.
Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1906924333
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
Author : Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Robert K. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0429728239
Many college students remain puzzled by card catalogs, can't find books they need, and fail to use many of the important resources of the library despite tours, explanations, and much assistance from librarians. In this book, a community college librarian provides the direction students need to utilize the resources typically found in a community c