Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780195168235 |
ISBN 10 | 0195168232 |
Author | Hugh Rawson |
Book Format | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Book Description | With nearly 6,000 quotations arranged historically and annotated extensively, you'll know not just who said what, but get the full story behind the quote. Follow any of the more than five hundred topics (from Abolition to Zeal) and you will get a nut |
About the Author | Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson are also the editors of The New International Dictionary of Quotations, A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible, and A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare. Hugh is also the author of Wicked Words, Devious Derivations, and Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk. They live in Roxbury, Connecticut. |
Publication Date | 2005-12-08 |
Number of Pages | 912 pages |
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations