The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Elizabeth Knowles
From Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1912 to the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, charting watersheds such as two World Wars as well as the ebbs and flows of popular culture, the quotations in this collection provide a picture of the social, political, cultural and scientific concerns of modern times. Containing over 5000 quotations from authors as diverse as Elizabeth Arden, Billy Connolly, Bertolt Brecht, Linda Evangelista, Eddie Izzard, Alison Lurie, Carl Sagan, William Shatner and Desmond Tutu, the dictionary is author-organized with cross-referencing and keyword and thematic indexes. Special categories for film taglines and cartoon captions have been added to accompany misquotations, official advice and newspaper headlines.
From the deeply serious to the frivolous, key quotations of today underpinned by landmark voices of the past in over 5,000 quotations
About the Editors:
Elizabeth Knowles is Managing Editor in the Quotation dictionaries group, and Julia Elliott is Senior Editor in the Thesauruses group, both at Oxford University Press, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198662754 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198662750 |
| Title | The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations |
| Author | Elizabeth Knowles |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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