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The Oxford Book of Aphorisms

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Availability:In StockContributor:John Gross (Editor)Series:Oxford Books of ProsePublish date:2003-04-24Pages:394
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192804563ISBN-10:192804561UPC:9780192804563Book Category:ReferenceBook Subcategory:DictionariesSize:7.73 x 5.07 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCND691JYF
An aphorism is "a short pithy statement or maxim," but beneath this definition lies a wealth of wit and insight to which neither the word nor a brief description can do justice.

This anthology demonstrates just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. Specific sections on desires and longings, self-doubt, fame and reputations, happiness and sorrow, cover the whole range of aphoristic literature. This book brings together the most diverse figures--the classic aphorists, like La Rochefoucauld; the philosophers, from the Greeks to Samuel Johnson to Virginia Woolf--as well as statesmen, scientists, boulevardiers, Olympians, and gadflies. John Gross draws on their wisdom and wit to produce an anthology that will be referred to time and time again.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192804563ISBN-10:192804561UPC:9780192804563Book Category:ReferenceBook Subcategory:DictionariesSize:7.73 x 5.07 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCND691JYF
John Gross is former editor of The Times Literary Supplement and was on the staff of the New York Times from 1983 to 1988. He has been theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1989 and is the editor of other Oxford anthologies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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