Download or read book The Cassell Dictionary of Anecdotes written by Nigel Rees and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...features over 1000 stories arranged alphabetically under 400 subject headings. The index provides further subject access, particularly to the people (usually famous) referred to in the stories...Rees...uses his years of lexicological experience to good effect, augmenting his pithy, humorous renditions of the stories with footnotes examining versions attributed to other people."--Library Journal.
Download or read book Cassell Dictionary of Anecdotes written by Nigel Rees and published by Orion. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Anecdote Incident Illustrative Fact written by Walter Baxendale and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cassell dictionary of clich s written by Nigel Rees and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sick and tired of cliches? Uncover all kinds of fun facts about how clichQs came to be. Many of these phrases have journalistic origins, many are literary, and some go as far back as the Bible -- but every entry will astound you. And the alphabetical, dictionary format makes it easy to find just what you're looking for.
Download or read book The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes written by Clifton Fadiman and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.
Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Download or read book Dictionary of Anecdote Incident Illustrative Fact Selected and Arranged for the Pulpit and the Platform written by Walter Baxendale and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bartlett s Book of Anecdotes written by Andre Bernard and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.
Download or read book The Cassell Concise Dictionary written by Lesley Brown and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a revised and updated text, with additional features. Each entry in the dictionary has been re-edited and revised, where necessary. Colloquial and technical terms have been added, with usage and grammar notes included, and help is provided on common misspellings and mispronunciations.
Download or read book Dictionary of Anecdote Incident Illustrative Fact Selected and Arranged for the Pulpit and the Platform Classic Reprint written by Walter Baxendale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact, Selected and Arranged for the Pulpit and the Platform And it is to Truth embodied in a tale our Poet Laureate has given the palm; Where truth in closest words shall fail. Can anything be more dreary than a day's reading of the ordinary sermons of the past generation? Theology violently divorced from human life becomes inevitably dull and acrid, stale and unprofitable. How many hearers have sat in the condition so graphically described by Emerson - the snowstorm without, real and beautiful, the preacher within, merely spectral; listening to one who had never learned the capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth! It is the wise saying of a great modern preacher, If, a man cannot speak the language of men, he will stand outside of mankind, in spite of all he can do. How these divine verities we preach afiect humanity to day is the great question, and if we are wise advocates for Christ we shall quote precedent and example, we shall illustrate and exemplify; just as the skilled lawyer does, in order that he may prove his case. The whole field of sacred and profane literature is ours, as well as the open pages of that Holy Book whose words have quickening power unto eternal life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A dictionary of anecdotes chiefly historical and illustrative of characters and events ancient and modern etc By George Ramsay written by George RAMSAY (Compiler.) and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassell Companion to Theatre written by and published by Cassell PLC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...includes some 3,500 articles arranged under one alphabet....not only plays, playwrights, actors and actresses but also theater managers, directors, critics, theaters, technical terminology, and actors' slang....Characters are not neglected....an emphasis on the somewhat less well known...confirm(s) what the reader most likely already knows, then give(s) information and anecdotes that the reader may not know....creates a work both more readable and more useful for reference than one that merely summarizes information readily available elsewhere....Not limited to legitimate theater...discusses vaudeville, burlesque, and various folk dramas....Non-Western theater traditions are not neglected....recommended for public, high school, and undergraduate libraries..."--Booklist. "...what makes The Cassell Companion such a delicious read is the unexpected--the trivia, language, and legend you stumble upon while looking for something else."--Dramatics.
Download or read book Secretly Inside written by Hans Warren and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
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Download or read book 1 000 Unforgettable Senior Moments written by Tom Friedman and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The president who left the nuclear launch codes in a suit at the dry cleaners. The novelist who put the orange juice outside and the kitten in the refrigerator. The Russian general who left home in full military dress . . . minus his pants. The famous sex goddess who blew the same line through 52 takes. And the rock star who no longer remembers 1975. Filled with classic lapses, gaffes, and mental bloopers, 1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments is a fabulous and witty gift for anyone of a certain age. And now it is updated, revised with more than 20 percent new stories, and repackaged in two color, making it an even more vibrant, visually appealing, fresh, and compellingly readable book. Anyone who’s ever had a mental lapse will empathize with relative spring chicken Nicki Minaj, who, while accepting a BET Viewers’ Choice Award, forgot why she was receiving the statuette (on live national television, no less). Or the team of astrophysicists who believed they had discovered proof of alien life—only to discover the signals were coming from the lunchroom microwave. Here’s a best man forgetting to show up at the wedding, a musician leaving his priceless cello in a cab, the bank robber who wrote a holdup note on a paycheck stub that had his name and address printed on it, and the Fox studio chief who, when pressed by his leading lady to remember her name, offered “. . . Cleopatra?”
Download or read book A New Dictionary of Anecdotes illustrative of character and events Arranged alphabetically according to subjects written by George RAMSAY (Compiler.) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DICTIONARY OF ANECDOTE INCIDENT ILLUSTRATIVE FACT SELECTED AND ARRANGED FOR THE PULPIT AND THE PLATFORM written by WALTER. BAXENDALE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
