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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (25 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141021128
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141021126
  • Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 11 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 289,735 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Quotations contains thousands of epigrams and bons mots from public figures famous and infamous. Arranged alphabetically by speaker, and including biographical information, this is an invaluable book for readers, writers, after-dinner speakers and trivia addicts. Part of Penguin's major new series of reference titles ranging from Spanish and French dictionaries to books on spelling and babies' names.

About the Author
Professor David Crystal OBE is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor and editor of The New Penguin Encyclopedia. He lives in Holyhead, Anglesey.

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5.0 out of 5 stars DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN, 7 Mar 2009
By Peter Hurst "peter hurst" (wigan, england) - See all my reviews
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Compiled by David Crystal - the respected linguist, academic and author - this Penguin Pocket of Quotations is everything you would want and expect from a quotations book; short, sweet and packed full with little gems.

Starting with Crystal's thoughtful preface before proceeding to the quotations itself - which begin with Peter Abelard's "We do not easily suspect evil of those whom we love most" and ending with Emile Zola's "J'accuse" - the book also has a useful index at the back.

Comparable to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations but arguably simpler in format (and thus even more accessible) this is a dictionary that would prove useful to anyone wishing to have a cornucopia of historical and contempory words of wisdom at their fingertips.
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