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Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0192804561
Gathers witty quotations about nature, religion, fear, hope, fame, wealth, politics, marriage, happiness, knowledge, language, and death
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 019282015X
This anthology demonstrates to the full how brilliantly the aphorist can illumine the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : OCLC:233654966
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden,Louis Kronenberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 0571095194
Aphorisms are not witticisms or epigrams, but general truths succinctly stated. This anthology contains 3000 quotations from a wide variety of aphorists ranging from Heraclitus to Ogden Nash, as well as Jane Austen, Pascal, Freud, Goethe, the Duke of Wellington, Shaw, Jean Cocteau and many more.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199543410
In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
Author : Andrew Hui
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210759
Aphorisms-- or philosophical short sayings--appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form. What are its origins? How did it develop? How do religious or philosophical movements arise from the enigmatic sayings of charismatic leaders? And why do some of our most celebrated modern philosophers use aphoristic fragments to convey their deepest ideas? In A Theory of the Aphorism, Andrew Hui crisscrosses histories and cultures to answer these questions and more. With clarity and precision, Hui demonstrates how aphorisms-- ranging from China, Greece, and biblical antiquity to the European Renaissance and nineteenth century--encompass sweeping and urgent programs of thought. Constructed as literary fragments, aphorisms open new lines of inquiry and horizons of interpretation. In this way, aphorisms have functioned as ancestors, allies, or antagonists to grand systems of philosophy. Encompassing literature, philology, and philosophy, the history of the book and the history of reading, A Theory of the Aphorism invites us to reflect anew on what it means to think deeply about this pithiest of literary forms.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199556557
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
Author : Walter Gratzer,Walter Bruno Gratzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019860940X
A collection of fascinating stories, entertainingly told, revealing the human face of science. Eurekas and Euphorias encompasses some 200 anecdotes brilliantly illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. Told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer, here are stories to delight, astonish, instruct, and most especially, entertain the general reader, scientist and non-scientist alike.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015043799215
This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the legends of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kashuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match. The book represents an enormous diversity of men and women - from John Bunyan to John Updike, from Brendan Behan to Chinua Achebe, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Patrick White. As the centuries progress, American writers increase their presence, and by the twentieth century there are contributions fromIndia, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. The selection is no less remarkable for its breadth in terms of subject-matter and treatment. Fiction is generously represented, but many other kinds of writing have also been drawn on: letters, diaries, and memoirs; history and philosophy; criticism and reportage; sermons and satire; travel-books;reflections on art, science, politics and sport. There are classic and well-loved passages, and also a great deal that is unfamiliar. John Gross has chosen with consummate skill to produce a volume that is both a testimonial to English prose and an endless source of pleasurable browsing.
Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Work
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021968925
Compiled by a respected social historian, this unique anthology on the changing experience of work draws upon more than 500 writers from classical antiquity to modern times.
Author : Evan Esar
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : 1566195292
Author : Kevin Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0192825100
Few things occupy as central a place in our lives as money, and few provoke such intense and varied response. Now in an entertaining book, Jackson brings together reflections on money by some of the most brilliant minds who have ever lived. Shakespeare, Milton, Mark Twain, Jane Austen and others help readers to rexamine what money means to them and rethink its value in their lives.
Author : James Lough,Alex Stein
Publisher : IPG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781936182909
A compilation of satirical and philosophical aphorisms from modern writers on the cutting edge of their craft A unique anthology that draws together the work and musings of our leading pioneers of short-form writing, this book features writers who take this time-honored literary form to new heights. Concise, wise, and sometimes terse or humorous, aphorisms are short phrases that are often instructional or moralistic. With a brief introductory piece from each author and a generous sampling of each individual's particular take on the aphorism, the reader is presented with a vast trove of wit, wisdom, insight, and inspiration, as well as new ways to look at language, words, and writing. From "Nothing dirtier than old soap" to "He doesn't need imagination—he's got money," the writers expound upon their favorite adages. The contributors range from prize-winning poets Charles Simic and Stephen Dobyns to bestselling authors like James Geary, David Shields, and experimental writers such as Olivia Dresher and Yahia Lababidi. Short Flights is sure to intrigue and delight all lovers of literature, language, and wordplay.
Author : G. C. Lichtenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140448594
Georg Lichtenberg, the 18th-century exponent of English thought in Germany, was the author of a body of aphoristic writings in European literature. This volume follows Lichtenberg's own notebook arrangement.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 019963937X
An unparalleled introduction to the parodist's art, The Oxford Book of Parodies includes parodies from Chaucer to the present day, ranging from imitations and spoofs to lampoons and pastiches, comical, scornful, witty, and subtle. It also takes in advertisements, legal rituals, political warfare and a scientific hoax.
