The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (Oxford Quick Reference) - Softcover

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9780199547463: The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (Oxford Quick Reference)

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ISBN 10: 0199547467 ISBN 13: 9780199547463

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Containing more than 5,000 quotations from authors as diverse as Bertolt Brecht, George W. Bush, Homer Simpson, Carl Sagan, William Shatner, and Desmond Tutu, this dictionary is organized alphabetically by author, with generous cross-referencing and keyword and thematic indexes. This new edition features more than 500 new quotations and 187 new authors. Gathered here are literary figures such as Italo Calvino, J. M. Coetzee, and Toni Morrison; politicians ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to Rudy Giuliani and Bill Clinton; entertainers such as Halle Berry and Jerry Seinfeld; and star athletes such as David Beckham and Serena Williams. The book includes special sections featuring quotations from cartoons, films, political slogans, famous last words, misquotations, newspaper headlines and more. Finally, this edition boasts a new and unique selection process, using the largest ongoing language research program in the world, the Oxford English Corpus, to ensure that all the most popular and widely-used quotations are here. Spanning a century and stretching from the deeply serious to the frivolous and surreal, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations is a vital part of anyone's reference shelf.

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Knowles is the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and has been Managing Editor of Oxford Quotations Dictionaries since 1993. A historical lexicographer, she previously worked for ten years on the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Review:

`Review from previous edition Gathers together the brightest and wittiest thoughts of the 20th and 21st centuries... There's good fun to be found here.'
The Times

`Authoritative reference and endless browsing'
Good Book Guide

`Elizabeth Knowles has edited this latest Oxford blockbuster with commendable zing'
Sunday Times

`A good feel for American culture'
International Herald Tribune

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