Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations
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Concise Dictionary
cross-cultural quotation interpretation
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European language references
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foreign languages
historical political sayings
literary citation analysis
Lonely Word
mediaeval scribes
multilingual phrase origins
newspaper editorials
Pontus De Tyard
proverbial sayings
translation source material
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- ISBN 9781579583415
- Weight: 793g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Here is the answer for anyone who comes across a foreign-language quotation in a newspaper article or a book and isn't quite sure what it means. Here are famous sayings, in five European languages--Latin, French, German, Italian, and Spanish--accompanied by their translations into English and cross-indexed for easy reference. Just what did Mussolini say about making the trains run on time? Did Marie-Antoinette really tell the poor to eat cake? Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations includes more than 3,000 entries, chosen by five editors, each one widely read in the language concerned. The majority of entries were included because they are familiar, those an English reader would be most likely to encounter. Literary quotations, political quotations, poetic thoughts, pungent comments, polished epigrams, shrewd perceptions--by everyone from Cicero to Sartre, from Michelangelo to Picasso.
