Book Description
This tenth revised edition contains almost 75,000 quotations from nearly 5000 authors, arranged by subject, and indexed.
Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
Page : 2920 pages
File Size : 31,12 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 : Herb Galewitz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0486110761
More than 400 memorable quotes about the world of music, from Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Florian Zabach. Wonderful for public speakers or just browsing.
Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Quotations
ISBN : 9780396025337
Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,74 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 :
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Information services
ISBN :
Author : Simon Eliot
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0415198607
This unique student resource is specifically designed for those beginning an MA in Literature, providing an introduction to research techniques, methodologies and information sources relevant to the study of literature at postgraduate level.
Author : Lyle Dick
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1552380505
Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
Author : David Leverenz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801441677
Between the Civil War and World War I, David Leverenz maintains, the corporate transformation of American work created widespread desire for upward mobility along with widening class divisions. In his view, several significant narrative constructs, notably the daddy s girl and the daddy s boy, emerge at the intersection between paternalist practices and more democratic possibilities for self-advancement. From Mark Twain s Laura Hawkins in The Gilded Age to the protagonist of Theodore Dreiser s Sister Carrie and Willa Cather s Alexandra Bergson in O Pioneers!, Leverenz finds that the image of the daddy s girl constrains the emerging threat of the career woman even as it articulates the lure of upward mobility for women. In surveying the figure of the "daddy s boy," Leverenz examines tensions between young men s desires for upward mobility and older men s desires for paternal control. Paternalism Incorporated also addresses yearnings for individualism and paternalism in various critiques of the emerging corporation. Another chapter links honor and shaming to race in the philanthropic practices of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, framed with narratives by William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, and Jane Addams. After showing how a daddy s girl becomes a paternalist in Henry James s The Golden Bowl, Leverenz considers F. Scott Fitzgerald s Tender is the Night as paternalism s elegy, contrasted with the Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel."
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674053786
Letters and Social Aims, published in 1875, contains essays originally published early in the 1840s as well as those that were the product of a collaborative effort among Emerson, his daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson, his son Edward Waldo Emerson, and his literary executor James Eliot Cabot. The volume takes up the topics of Poetry and Imagination, Social Aims, Eloquence, Resources, The Comic, Quotation and Originality, Progress of Culture, Persian Poetry, Inspiration, Greatness, and, appropriately for Emerson's last published book, Immortality. The historical introduction demonstrates for the first time the decline in Emerson's creative powers after 1865; the strain caused by the preparation of a poetry anthology and delivery of lectures at Harvard during this time; the devastating effect of a house fire in 1872; and how the Emerson children and Cabot worked together to enable Emerson to complete the book. The textual introduction traces this collaborative process in detail and also provides new information about the genesis of the volume as a response to a proposed unauthorized British edition of Emerson's works. Historical Introduction by Ronald A. BoscoNotes and Parallel Passages by Glen M. JohnsonText Established and Textual Introduction and Apparatus by Joel Myerson
Author : Mary Michael Spangler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2002-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579109209