The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life

by James A. Clapp and James A Clapp

Book Overview

The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged, with excellent woodcut illustrations, more than three thousand quotations--epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical observations--on urban life from antiquity until the present. These quotes are drawn from the written and spoken words...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882850954
• ISBN13: 9780882850955
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Cupr/Transaction
• Length: 313 Pages