Anthology of Quotations
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: October 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780747554547
Subjects: Dictionaries of quotations; Reference works; Reference
Description: "In the Bloomsbury Anthology of Quotations we have put together over 12,000 quotations on over 700 vibrant themes, reflecting a more international range of sources than you'll find in any comparable book, with quotations taken from cultures as far apart as ancient China, Renaissance Europe, and contemporary South Africa." "Setting out to present the best and most striking things said on subjects ranging from Popular Music to Freedom, the Middle East to Women, and from Philosophy to the Internet, the book contains a rich variety of both traditional and modern quotations. With quotations taken from the theatre, films, the Internet, poetry, literature, criticism, politics, academia, television, and radio, the net is cast wide for authors including Charles Dickens, Steven Spielberg, Lord Byron, Nelson Mandela, Samuel Johnson, Umberto Eco, Confucius, Virginia Woolf, Aesop, Sigmund Freud, Quentin Tarantino, Jeanette Winterson, Aristotle, Salman Rushdie, the Dalai Lama, Oscar Wilde, Toni Morrison, The Simpsons, Harold Pinter, Bill Bryson, Karl Marx, and Stephen Hawking." "Drawing on the vast Bloomsbury Database of Quotations, the book reflects how people through the ages have used language to react to the world around them with scepticism, pleasure, poetry, humour, anger, insight, and empathy. The Bloomsbury Anthology of Quotations will provide quotations for every need, whether your chosen theme is Emotion, Political Insults, Therapy, Storytelling, Love, Theatre, Relationships, Ideas, Fashion, or War."--BOOK JACKET.