The Oxford Book of Ages

by Sally Sampson and Anthony Sampson

Book Overview

This ingenious anthology brings together a kaleidoscope of opinions about every age of life from birth to a hundred. Anthony and Sally Sampson have collected the wit and wisdom of many remarkable figures of the past and present, as they pause to reflect on their achievements or aspirations and on what it means to be a certain age.L If you want to find your experiences shared, or your fears and hopes for the future confirmed, turn to any age for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192141341
• ISBN13: 9780192141347
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A thoughtfully done anthology

For each age of the persons life, the editors Anthony and Sally Sampson have gathered significant quotations.They have chosen from a variety of excellent sources .Their work has an excellent introduction in which they reflect on the whole course of life's ages. Most often their entries are not simply token significations of the age involved but rather real reflections of what the person felt at that particular age of their life. Some examples from the Age Sixty- two. " I nevwer wake without finding life more insignificant than it was the day before. .. My great misery is recollecting the scene of twenty years past, and then all on a sudden dropping into the present. " Swift " I am spending delightful afternoons in my graden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older I feel everything departing , and I love everything with more passion." Zola " No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year." Cicero "We are a pair of old derelicts drifting around, now, with some of our passengers gone and the sunniness of others in eclipse." Twain to W.D. Howells