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New York in Quotations
Jaqueline Mitchell
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Description for New York in Quotations
Hardcover. Over the last three-and-a-half centuries this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose or the ultimate wisecrack. Series: In Quotations. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; DQ; WTM; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 88. .
‘Make your mark in New York and you are a made man’ wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach: it’s ‘an aviary over-stocked with jays’ (O. Henry), ‘a sucked orange’ (Ralph Waldo Emerson) or ‘fantastically charmless and elaborately dire’ (Henry James). Over the last three-and-a-half centuries this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose or the ultimate wisecrack.
‘Make your mark in New York and you are a made man’ wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach: it’s ‘an aviary over-stocked with jays’ (O. Henry), ‘a sucked orange’ (Ralph Waldo Emerson) or ‘fantastically charmless and elaborately dire’ (Henry James). Over the last three-and-a-half centuries this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose or the ultimate wisecrack.
Product Details
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
In Quotations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851244201
SKU
V9781851244201
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99-50
About Jaqueline Mitchell
Jaqueline Mitchell is a freelance writer and editor, and the compiler of 'London in Quotations', 'Paris in Quotations' and 'Blitz Spirit'.
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