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The Wordsworth dictionary of quotations

Author: Connie Robertson
Publisher: Ware : Wordsworth, 1998.
Series: Wordsworth reference
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 3rd ed., newly revView all editions and formats
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Quotations have exercised a particular fascination for humanity since the birth of recorded language and their potency in the age of the soundbite is stronger than ever. We revel in quotations, compete to know them, love them, hate them and inscribe them in books and on buildings, and this freshly revised and updated dictionary includes a wealth of new material among its 13,000 familiar, serious, outrageous, witty  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Dictionaries
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Connie Robertson
ISBN: 185326489X 9781853264894
OCLC Number: 40498902
Notes: Previously published: 1997.
Description: vi, 669 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Wordsworth reference
Responsibility: edited by Connie Robertson.

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This work contains 15,000 familiar, serious, outrageous, thought-provoking and funny entries.  Read more...

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