Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 quotations and the stories behind them - Hardcover

Rees, Nigel; Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

 
9780304367993: Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 quotations and the stories behind them
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0304367990 ISBN 13: 9780304367993
Verlag: Chambers, 2006

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The only quotation book that tells the stories behind the quotations has been expanded and updated. Now, readers can find important information other references neglect: the colorful anecdotes and historical incidents that provide the context, background, and wider significance of each famous saying. Did Neil Armstrong revise his famous giant leap” quotation after he got back from the moon? Did the aeronautical engineer who coined Murphy’s Law (if anything can go wrong, it will”) actually mean it as a warning about safe design? Here’s the inside story on 5,000 great quotations, from ancient times to the novels of Douglas Adams.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nigel Rees is the author of over 50 books, including the Cassell Dictionary of Humorous Quotations and the Cassell Companion to Quotations. He is the deviser and presenter of BBC Radioand#191;s Quoteand#191;Unquote, through which he has become an authority on the popular use of language in slogans, catchphrases, cliches, idioms and quotations.

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Verlag
Chambers
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0304367990
ISBN 13 
9780304367993
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
568
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