Brewer's Famous Quotations : 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them - Hardcover

Rees, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0304367990 ISBN 13: 9780304367993

Verlag: Cassell Publishers, 2006

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Book by Rees Nigel

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"Brewer's Famous Quotations can be read straight through with pleasure, in bedside helpings." (THE SPECTATOR)

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If you have ever wondered where the immortal phrase 'A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do' originated, tried to establish who first observed that 'Truth is stranger than fiction', been puzzled by rumours that Greta Garbo never said 'I want to be alone' and that Et tu Brute' were not Caesar's dying words, and rashly assumed that Salome's 'Dance of the Seven Veils' must be mentioned somewhere in the Bible - then Brewer's Famous Quotations is here to put you on the right track. Authoritative and entertaining by turns, it is the perfect book for browsers, the ultimate source of information on a vast range of problematic quotations, and the final court of appeal on the vexed issue of Who Really Said What.

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• Verlag: Cassell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0304367990
• ISBN 13: 9780304367993
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 640