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Software for Quote Enthusiasts Quote Organizer Deluxe: quote, verse, proverb inventory software for Windows. Dictionary Organizer Deluxe: database management software that allows you to create your own dictionary, terminology or glossary books. Book Organizer Deluxe: book inventory software for book collectors. Collectibles Organizer Deluxe: the easy way to organize and manage all your collectibles. Bestselling and bargain books: Quotations Dictionary * Search bestsellers * Search bargain books * Other books Books -> Quotations Dictionary The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations by: Kemp, Peter Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: December 1, 2003 ISBN: 0198662815 Format:Hardcover Pages:544    Read More, Buy It Book Description From Publishers Weekly What is literature? Depending on whom one asks, it's "a drug" (George Borrow); "the question minus the answer" (Roland Barthes); "the orchestration of platitudes" (Thornton Wilder); or "a splendid mistress, but a bad wife" (Rudyard Kipling). These bon mots and over 4,400 others (one-fifth of them new to this edition) are gathered here by Kemp, the fiction editor of the (London) Sunday Times. The quotes, as before, are organized by theme, which include Writer's Block, Morality and Tools of the Trade; Collaboration, Graffiti and Epitaphs are among several themes also new to this edition. An author index makes it easy to find out what Nabokov said about art ("Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art") or what Barbara Pym thought of poetry anthologies ("What a bad sign it is to get the Oxford Book of Victorian Verse out of the library"). All in all, this is an edifying and highly diverting resource for any student of writing and language. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Product Description: This newly expanded edition of the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations illuminates the world of the writer, from Shakespeare to Stephen King, from the quill to the PC. Covering all aspects of literary life, this edition is now enriched with new themes and memorable quotations from recent favorites such as Jonathan Franzen, J.K. Rowling, and Donna Tartt. Celebrating over 3,000 years of writing, the dictionary's 4,000 quotations are arranged thematically and chronologically by author within each topic. Full keyword and author indexes ensure that a favorite quotation or author can be located quickly. From "Tools of the Trade" to "Writer's Block", from "Fables and Fairy Tales" to "Earning a Living," The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations brings us the wittiest, most profound, most surprising, and most memorable words of the world's greatest writers on all aspects of their lives and work.   Read More, Buy It Copyright © 1996-2004 PrimaSoft PC, Inc. All rights reserved.