Items related to The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
This newly expanded edition of the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations illuminates the world of the writer, from Shakespeare to Stephen King, from the quill to the PC. Covering all aspects of literary life, this edition is now enriched with new themes and memorable quotations from recent favorites such as Jonathan Franzen, J.K. Rowling, and Donna Tartt.
Celebrating over 3,000 years of writing, the dictionary's 4,000 quotations are arranged thematically and chronologically by author within each topic. Full keyword and author indexes ensure that a favorite quotation or author can be located quickly. From "Tools of the Trade" to "Writer's Block", from "Fables and Fairy Tales" to "Earning a Living," The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations brings us the wittiest, most profound, most surprising, and most memorable words of the world's greatest writers on all aspects of their lives and work.
Celebrating over 3,000 years of writing, the dictionary's 4,000 quotations are arranged thematically and chronologically by author within each topic. Full keyword and author indexes ensure that a favorite quotation or author can be located quickly. From "Tools of the Trade" to "Writer's Block", from "Fables and Fairy Tales" to "Earning a Living," The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations brings us the wittiest, most profound, most surprising, and most memorable words of the world's greatest writers on all aspects of their lives and work.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Peter Kemp is Fiction Editor of the Sunday Times, a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at Kingston University. His previous publications include Muriel Spark and H.G. Wells and the Culminating Age.
From Publishers Weekly:
Peter Kemp is Fiction Editor of the Sunday Times, a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at Kingston University. His previous publications include Muriel Spark and H.G. Wells and the Culminating Age.
What is literature? Depending on whom one asks, it's "a drug" (George Borrow); "the question minus the answer" (Roland Barthes); "the orchestration of platitudes" (Thornton Wilder); or "a splendid mistress, but a bad wife" (Rudyard Kipling). These bon mots and over 4,400 others (one-fifth of them new to this edition) are gathered here by Kemp, the fiction editor of the (London) Sunday Times. The quotes, as before, are organized by theme, which include Writer's Block, Morality and Tools of the Trade; Collaboration, Graffiti and Epitaphs are among several themes also new to this edition. An author index makes it easy to find out what Nabokov said about art ("Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art") or what Barbara Pym thought of poetry anthologies ("What a bad sign it is to get the Oxford Book of Victorian Verse out of the library"). All in all, this is an edifying and highly diverting resource for any student of writing and language.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0198662815
- ISBN 13 9780198662815
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages512
- EditorKemp Peter
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 23.45
Shipping:
US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0198662815
Buy New
US$ 23.45
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new0198662815
Buy New
US$ 25.69
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon0198662815
Buy New
US$ 25.72
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press; New edition (January 22, 2004)
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0198662815
Buy New
US$ 28.78
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0198662815
Buy New
US$ 29.95
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 2
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand New!. Seller Inventory # VIB0198662815
Buy New
US$ 34.30
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0198662815
Buy New
US$ 31.41
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # Abebooks64641
Buy New
US$ 59.00
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2003)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 544 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 0198662815
Buy New
US$ 59.98
Convert currency
Stock Image
THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF LITERAR
Published by
Oxford University Press
(2004)
ISBN 10: 0198662815
ISBN 13: 9780198662815
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.99. Seller Inventory # Q-0198662815
Buy New
US$ 75.49
Convert currency