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The Oxford book of essays
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ISBN: 019282970X Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Joyce
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ISBN: 000632438X Year: 1971 Publisher: London : Fontana/Collins,

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The rise and fall of the man of letters : aspects of English literary life since 1800.
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ISBN: 0297764942 Year: 1969 Publisher: London Weidenfeld and Nicolson

After Shakespeare : an anthology
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ISBN: 0192142682 9780192142689 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,


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The Oxford book of aphorisms
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ISBN: 0192141112 Year: 1984 Publisher: Oxford

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The dictionary defines "aphorism" as "a short pithy statement or maxim," but beneath this definition lies a wealth of wit and insight to which neither the word nor any brief description can do justice. This delightful anthology demonstrates just how rewarding the aphorism can be and how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate a hidden truth or reveal the ironies of life. Whatever the situation, whatever the mood, the reader will find in this international array of aphorisms just the right words to give his or her feeling pungent expression. The classic aphorists--La Bruy'ere, Nietzsche, both Samuel Butlers, La Rochefoucault, Emerson--are here in abundance, as are the philosophers from the Greeks of Paul Val'ery, the social commentators from Edmund Burke to Walter Benjamin. Statesmen and scientists, Olympians and gadflies, mystics and boulevardiers--this collection brings together the most diverse figures, drawing freely on ancients and moderns, on the widsom of East and West, juxtaposing viewpoints as different as those of Jean Cocteau and George Orwell, Ambrose Bierce and Marcus Aurelius, Lord Chesterfield and Elias Canetti. Profound, provocative, and vastly entertaining, The Oxford Book of Aphorisms will lure the reader back to its pages time and again. The book is fully indexed, and wherever possible, sources, dates, and complete names are supplied.

The rise and fall of the man of letters : aspects of English literary life since 1800
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ISBN: 1566630002 Year: 1992 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : Dee,

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Dickens and the twentieth century
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Year: 1966 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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This business of music : the definitive guide to the music industry
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ISBN: 0823077284 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Billboard books,

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