GROSS:OXF BOOK OF APHORISMS REI PAPER (Oxford Books of Prose) - Softcover

GROSS, John

 
9780192804563: GROSS:OXF BOOK OF APHORISMS REI PAPER (Oxford Books of Prose)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192804561 ISBN 13: 9780192804563
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

An aphorism is "a short pithy statement or maxim," but beneath this definition lies a wealth of wit and insight to which neither the word nor a brief description can do justice. This anthology demonstrates just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. Specific sections on desires and longings, self-doubt, fame and reputations, happiness and sorrow, cover the whole range of aphoristic literature. This book brings together the most diverse figures-the classic aphorists, like La Rochefoucauld; the philosophers, from the Greeks to Samuel Johnson to Virginia Woolf-as well as statesmen, scientists, boulevardiers, Olympians, and gadflies. John Gross draws on their wisdom and wit to produce an anthology that will be referred to time and time again.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Gross was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981 and on the staff of the New York Times from 1983 to 1988. He has been theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1989 and is the editor of other Oxford anthologies and After Shakespeare: An Anthology, published this year to rave reviews.



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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192804561
ISBN 13 
9780192804563
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
394
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