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Product Description: According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008...read more
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9780691170527 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 12, 2016, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American.
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9780691170534 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 12, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American.
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9780061710292 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 24, 2012), cover price $14.99
Complemented by profiles of each author and their aphorisms, an encyclopedic reference features words of wisdom from Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Muhammad Ali, and Mae West, among others, all organized into eight different categories--including Comics, Critics & Satirists, Painters & Poets, and more--and indexed according to author and subject.
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9781596912526 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 2, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An encyclopedic reference features words of wisdom from Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Muhammad Ali, and Mae West, in a book organized by eight different categories and indexed according to author and subject.
Product Description: Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, The World in a Phrase tells the story of the aphorism through spirited and amusing biographies of some of its greatest practitioners, including Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker; great French aphorists like Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, and Chamfort; philosophers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein; as well as prophets and sages like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Jesus...read more
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9781582346168 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 3, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, The World in a Phrase tells the story of the aphorism through spirited and amusing biographies of some of its greatest practitioners, including Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker; great French aphorists like Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, and Chamfort; philosophers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein; as well as prophets and sages like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Jesus.
Hardcover:
9781582344300 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 13, 2005, cover price $19.95
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9780813531946 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $27.00
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