The Oxford Book Of Aphorisms

Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780192804563
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Aphorisms written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1983 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers witty quotations about nature, religion, fear, hope, fame, wealth, politics, marriage, happiness, knowledge, language, and death

Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192820150
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Aphorisms written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology demonstrates to the full how brilliantly the aphorist can illumine the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence.

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Total Pages : 383 pages
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Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199543410
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.

Author : Andrew Hui
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210756
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of the Aphorism written by Andrew Hui and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphorisms-- or philosophical short sayings--appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form. What are its origins? How did it develop? How do religious or philosophical movements arise from the enigmatic sayings of charismatic leaders? And why do some of our most celebrated modern philosophers use aphoristic fragments to convey their deepest ideas? In A Theory of the Aphorism, Andrew Hui crisscrosses histories and cultures to answer these questions and more. With clarity and precision, Hui demonstrates how aphorisms-- ranging from China, Greece, and biblical antiquity to the European Renaissance and nineteenth century--encompass sweeping and urgent programs of thought. Constructed as literary fragments, aphorisms open new lines of inquiry and horizons of interpretation. In this way, aphorisms have functioned as ancestors, allies, or antagonists to grand systems of philosophy. Encompassing literature, philology, and philosophy, the history of the book and the history of reading, A Theory of the Aphorism invites us to reflect anew on what it means to think deeply about this pithiest of literary forms.

Author : Aaron Haspel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692582596
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything written by Aaron Haspel and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphorisms are often derided as trivial, yet most people rule their lives with five or six of them. This collection contains five or six hundred, some of which you wouldn't want to rule your life with. "The Rochefoucauld of the Twitter generation has arrived. Aaron Haspel's crisp, curt, cold-eyed aphorisms pack the maximum amount of truth into the minimum amount of space - and do it with elegance and wit." -Terry Teachout, drama critic, The Wall Street Journal "Delightfully witty, painfully true, and thoroughly enjoyable reading...a gem on every page." -Megan McArdle, Bloomberg columnist and author of The Up Side of Down "Aaron Haspel is good, very good." -Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile and The Black Swan "My favorite aphorist of the 21st century." -Colin Marshall, Boing Boing "Extremely good...wry, wise rules." -James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase and editor of Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571095193
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faber Book of Aphorisms written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphorisms are not witticisms or epigrams, but general truths succinctly stated. This anthology contains 3000 quotations from a wide variety of aphorists ranging from Heraclitus to Ogden Nash, as well as Jane Austen, Pascal, Freud, Goethe, the Duke of Wellington, Shaw, Jean Cocteau and many more.

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780880290562
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viking Book of Aphorisms written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1962 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of pithy sayings dealing with man's ideas. Divided for easy reference into categories such as love, marriage, friendship, religion, science, the arts, and many others.

Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322509
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waste Books written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions. Lichtenberg's Waste Books have been greatly admired by writers as very different as Tolstoy, Einstein, and Andre Breton, while Nietzsche and Wittgenstein acknowledged them as a significant inspiration for their own radical work in philosophy. The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.

Author : Evan Esar
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566195294
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 20,000 Quips & Quotes written by Evan Esar and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: