The Oxford Dictionary Of Modern Quotations

Author: Elizabeth Knowles

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Price : $36.90 NZD
ISBN : 9780198609513
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Imprint : Oxford University Press
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Weight (g) : 0.348
Publication date : 08 July 2004
Dimensions : 196mm X 129mm X 26mm
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Author : Elizabeth Knowles
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Now available as an attractive pocket-sized paperback, this collection offers a vivid picture both of the world today, and of the landmark events and key voices leading to it. From Scott's Antarctic Expedition in 1912 to the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, it charts watersheds such as two World Wars as well as the ebbs and flows of popular culture.

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Elizabeth Knowles has been Managing Editor of Oxford Quotations Dictionaries since 1993 and is a historical lexicographer, having previously worked for ten years on the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

INTRODUCTION; HOW TO USE THIS DICTIONARY; MAIN DICTIONARY; SPECIAL CATEGORIES; Advertising slogans; Cartoon captions; Catchphrases; Epitaphs; Film lines; Film titles; Last words; Misquotations; Newspaper headlines and leaders; Official advice; Opening lines; Political sayings and slogans; Taglines for films; Telegrams; THEMATIC INDEX; KEYWORD INDEX; SOUNDBITES OF 2003-4