
New York in Quotations
Bodleian Library (Publisher)
Published on 28. October 2016
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-85124-420-1 (ISBN)
Description
'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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 122 mm
Width: 92 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
93 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85124-420-1 (9781851244201)
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Person
Jaqueline Mitchell is a freelance writer and editor, and the compiler of 'London in Quotations', 'New York in Quotations' and 'Blitz Spirit'.
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