In Quotations – serie
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London in Quotations
Inbunden, 2014
53 kr
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‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,’ said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a ‘riddle’, a ‘cesspool’ and a ‘modern Babylon’, and both Londoners and visitors alike have continued to …
Paris in Quotations
Inbunden, 2016
91 kr
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Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the ‘most extraordinary place in the world’, for Hazlitt, ‘a beast of a city’, and for French writers, the essence of civilization: ‘I maintain that, for people of …
Chicago in Quotations
Av Stuart Shea
Inbunden, 2016
104 kr
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‘I have struck a city– a real city – and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages,’ so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the ‘windy city’, home to the first skyscraper, gateway to the …
New York in Quotations
Inbunden, 2016
104 kr
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‘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 …
Oxford in Quotations
Inbunden, 2014
49 kr
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Since its humble beginnings as a ford for oxen across the river Thames in the tenth century, Oxford has been an inspiration to generations of writers and thinkers, who have admired its ‘dreaming spires’ (Matthew Arnold), or warned of its excesses, as did Anthony Trollope: ‘Oxford is the most …
