The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

by Robert Andrews

Book Overview

Contains 8,000 quotations from 1914 to the present. Includes biographical sketches of everyone quoted, citing their views on themselves and their often caustic remarks regarding others.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140293078
• ISBN13: 9780140293074
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

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