Author: Douglas JerroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold
Author: Douglas JerroldThe Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold
Author: Douglas JerroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's Wit
Author: Douglas JerroldA Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
The British Review ...
Author: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased
Author: AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Book of Humorous Quotations
Author: Connie RobertsonPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853267598
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except temptation', to Zsa Zsa Gabor's admission that 'I know nothing about sex, because I was always married', and by way of Woody Allen's numerous bon mots to the anonymous definition of psychiatry as being 'the care of the id by the odd', Connie Robertson has woven together a hilarious, stimulating and thought-provoking collection of the best humorous quotations which will provide the reader with much to ponder over long after the book has been put aside.The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations will delight the browser and the simply curious while also providing the student, journalist and after-dinner speaker with a wealth of valuable material.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Elizabeth M. KnowlesPublisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198601739
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.