Displaying 1 of 1 2007 Format: Book Author: Geary, James, 1962- Title: Geary's guide to the world's great aphorists / James Geary. Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007. Description: 437 pages ; 22 cm Summary: An encyclopedic reference features words of wisdom from Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Muhammad Ali, and Mae West, in a book organized by eight different categories and indexed according to author and subject. Subjects: Aphorisms and apothegms -- History and criticism. Aphorisms and apothegms. Genre: Sayings. Other Title: Guide to the world's great aphorists Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-415) and indexes. Contents: Be Sincere, Be Brief, Be Seated Comics, Critics, and Satirists Icons and Iconoclasts Moralists, Major and Minor Novelists and Playwrights Old Souls and Oracles Painters and Poets Philosophers and Theorists Strange Beasts Afterisms Web Site: Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2007006650 ISBN: 9781596912526 1596912529 Other Number: 84838598 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 206257 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 808.882 Geary Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
