The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- ISBN-10
- 0198601735
- ISBN-13
- 9780198601739
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 1136
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press
- Author
- Elizabeth M. Knowles
Description
More than twenty thousand quotations from every era and location are combined in a comprehensive reference that also encompasses details of the earliest traceable source, birth and death dates, and career briefs for each entry, as well as a thematic and k
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- 1979
- 907 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
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