{"product_id":"handbook-of-familiar-quotations-chiefly-from-english-authors-paperback-9781108068635","title":"Handbook of Familiar Quotations; Chiefly from English Authors (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108068635","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHandbook of Familiar Quotations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChiefly from English Authors\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection of verse quotations, ranging from Genesis to Wordsworth, is reissued here in its revised third edition of 1859.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108068635, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOriginally published in 1853 and reissued here in the revised and enlarged third edition of 1859, this collection of verse quotations ranges across a broad spectrum of texts and authors. While modern scholarship has revealed the work's compiler to be Isabella Rushton Preston, very little beyond her name is known about her. Beginning with the Book of Genesis and other scriptural selections, the collection moves through Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope and many more. It also devotes space to the more contemporaneous poetry of Romantics such as Byron, Wordsworth and Coleridge. The choices of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in particular offer modern readers an insight into the literary tastes of both the compiler and the society she inhabited. The brief preface expresses the hope that the work will prove 'useful and amusing' to readers who may already know a quotation but cannot name its source. A thorough index is also provided.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Old Testament\u003cbr\u003e Common Prayer\u003cbr\u003e New Testament\u003cbr\u003e Thomas à Kempis\u003cbr\u003e Harrison\u003cbr\u003e Marlowe\u003cbr\u003e Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e Spenser, etc.\u003cbr\u003e Milton\u003cbr\u003e The eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e The nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266160677144,"sku":"9781108068635","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108068635i_456b75c6-a251-4c84-bc81-f74f8fe34762.jpg?v=1696748715","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/handbook-of-familiar-quotations-chiefly-from-english-authors-paperback-9781108068635","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}