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Title: Chambers Dictionary of Quotations by Editors of Chambers ISBN: 0-550-21019-9 Publisher: Chambers Pub. Date: 15 October, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth a look
Comment: There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of quotation books. But not many offer over 20,000 quotations. This one falls into the group of massive quotation books that are categorized by author, rather than by subject. it makes it easier to familiarize yourself with the thoughts of a specific writer or speaker, but harder to find quotes based on topic or subject.
You have to compare this with the grand old book of author categorized quotations-- Bartletts. And this book comes out looking pretty good, with more than 50% more sources of quotations, including some very unique contemporary ones.
While I tend to prefer subject categorized book, I've found this one to be fun to browse. It's still too much effort to dig through these author categorized ones while doing an in depth subject search, but it is an excellent book, in the same general class as Bartlett's and Oxford.
The cover looks a bit stodgy, but inside, there are a wealth of new faces with new ideas. The publisher reports that a team of 40 researchers worked on this. This is particularly reflected in the great job they do of putting a decent bio of each speaker right there where the quotes are-- no need to dig the info up from the back of the book.
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Title: Chambers Biographical Dictionary (6th Ed) by Melanie Parry ISBN: 0550160604 Publisher: Larousse Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Chambers Dictionary by Editors of Chambers ISBN: 0550101055 Publisher: Chambers Pub. Date: 26 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Elizabeth Knowles ISBN: 0198601735 Publisher: Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ISBN: 1592400876 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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