The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
by Elizabeth Knowles (Editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0198607202
- ISBN 13
- 9780198607205
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OUP Oxford. Very Good/Very Good. 2004. Hard Cover. 0198607202 6th edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 1168 pages clean and tight. This is a major new edition of Oxford's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of quotations, bringing you the wisdom of the ages and the sound bites of today in 20,000+ quotations. The text is a browser's paradise, covering people and events from Cleopatra to J. K. Rowling, and the battle of Marathon to the Hutton Inquiry. The keyword index will help you to trace that half-remembered quote, and identifies the quotations that give us key phrases such as 'state of the Union' and 'dodgy dossier'. Special sections bring together categories such as Misquotations and Film lines. Traditional areas have been enriched and the best of the new added, and the Introduction tells the story of the nation's favourite quotations dictionary over 60 years. 'Come, and take choice of all my library.' William Shakespeare 'Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.' Michelangelo 'If business always made the right decisions, business wouldn't be business.' J. Paul Getty 'I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.' Dorothy Hodgkin. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- Author
- Elizabeth Knowles (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198607202
- ISBN 13
- 9780198607205
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2004
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