The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

by Kate Hughes and Robert Andrews

This title contains over 8000 quotations from 1914 to 2001, arranged alphabetically by author with a short biography introducing each author and contextual remarks. It includes quotations from Margot... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140514430
• ISBN13: 9780140514438
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This book replaces completeness with something better-- quality. Keyword and thematic indexes. A couple of sentences giving background for each person and, if necessary, the circumstances of the quote. This is the thing to pick up if you're interested in quotes that are a little hipper than Barlett's I've-heard-that-a-million-times quotes. Great fun to browse, e.g.: "I think it pisses God off it you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"--Alice Walker