- Paperback: 510 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 2 edition (14 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198609523
- ISBN-13: 978-0198609520
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 11.7 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 420,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Celebrating over 3000 years of writing, this expanded edition is chock-full of literary gems. Open it anywhere, and vignettes of literary life in different eras spring into view....Recommended."--Library Journal
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Now available as part of the Oxford Paperback Reference series, this new expanded edition of Peter Kemp's acclaimed collection illuminates the world of the writer, from classical literature to crime fiction and from the quill to the PC. Organized by subject, it includes topics ranging from Tools of the Trade and Writer's Block to Ghost Stories and Critics. Shakespeare, Shaw, and Johnson have their say, but authors also include Alice Munro on Illustration and Pushkin on Earning a Living, A. D. Hope on Fables and Fairytales, Rimbaud on Baudelaire and Harold Pinter on Omission. New themes in this edition include Graffiti and Epitaphs, and there are many more quotations by writers on other writers: Ben Okri on Cervantes, Walter de la Mare on Lewis Carroll, and Philip Roth on William Faulkner. The long uphill struggle in playwriting is getting to the top of page one. - Tom Stoppard I'd love to write a book a year, but I don't think I'd have any fans. - Donna Tartt Lads don't write novels. They're down the pub. - Martin Amis on Ladlit You reach an age when every sentence you write bumps into one you wrote thirty years ago. - John Updike Reading . . . is a strenuous and pleasurable contact sport. - Maureen Howard There were no innocent blondes in crime fiction. - Ed McBain Never make your publisher pay the postage is the first rule of literary life. - Julian Barnes
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Very Educational
8 Mar 2006
Format:Hardcover
I found this book exceptionally educational and inviting. I recommend this book to any English major interested in literary quotations. The book is organized, concise and easy to follow. This purchase was well worth it!
As far as a book on Literary Quotations goes,this one is pretty good.
4 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback
When thinking about buying a book on quotations,one has a choise in buying one that is limited to one field such as Military,Science,Humor,Art,Music,Leadership,hit & Wisdom,Ethnics& Cultures,Lawyers,Doctors, etc.such as this one is;or one of a general nature.So,if your aim is to limit yourself to Literary quotes,this is ideal,but would disappoint if it is to be used for quotes in general.
One must also keep in mind ,that this an "Oxford" dictionary and the quotations are heavily weighted in favor of British Literature.
As with all quotation compilations;it is always a problem in organizing them or for the user finding them in the book.This book is good in that it has an Index that lists the quotations by Author and another one that lists them by Keyword.To further assist the user the quotations are organized in themes ,alphabetically.
There is also a short section o "How to Use the Dictionary".
For example;under "themes you get Thomas Carlyle,Lewis Carroll Catullus,Censorship,Cerventas,Raymond Chandler,etc.Now, if you look under Lewis Carroll,you will find 2 quotes;one by Ellen Terry,and one by Walter de la Mare.However under "Authors" you will find 15 listed by Lewis Carroll,one being about literature on page 203:5.Now under Themes,Literature has has 95 listings,but doesn't include the one on 203:5.
The point being,even with this much indexing,trying to find or refind a quote can be difficult,so if you find one you might go searching for later ,you'd better have your own method of "tagging it".
One must also keep in mind ,that this an "Oxford" dictionary and the quotations are heavily weighted in favor of British Literature.
As with all quotation compilations;it is always a problem in organizing them or for the user finding them in the book.This book is good in that it has an Index that lists the quotations by Author and another one that lists them by Keyword.To further assist the user the quotations are organized in themes ,alphabetically.
There is also a short section o "How to Use the Dictionary".
For example;under "themes you get Thomas Carlyle,Lewis Carroll Catullus,Censorship,Cerventas,Raymond Chandler,etc.Now, if you look under Lewis Carroll,you will find 2 quotes;one by Ellen Terry,and one by Walter de la Mare.However under "Authors" you will find 15 listed by Lewis Carroll,one being about literature on page 203:5.Now under Themes,Literature has has 95 listings,but doesn't include the one on 203:5.
The point being,even with this much indexing,trying to find or refind a quote can be difficult,so if you find one you might go searching for later ,you'd better have your own method of "tagging it".
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