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Product Description: Traces hundreds of sayings, mottoes, and maxims to their roots in poetry by writers including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Yeats, and Frost.

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9781567315264 | Mjf Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $6.98 | About this edition: Traces hundreds of sayings, mottoes, and maxims to their roots in poetry by writers including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Yeats, and Frost.

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Product Description: A great hard cover collection of Shakespeare's quotes in Elizabethan England.
By Michael MacRone (editor)

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9781567314540 | Mjf Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $6.98 | About this edition: A great hard cover collection of Shakespeare's quotes in Elizabethan England.

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Product Description: Here are the lascivious lines, cuckolded characters, and politically incorrect notions of the baddest bard of all. Author Michael Macrone plumbs the depths of William Shakespeare's various and conflicted views on race, religion, government, culture, sex, and sexuality in concise, clear and hilariously scandalous explanations...read more
By Tom Lulevitch (illustrator) and Michael MacRone

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9780517209608 | Random House Value Pub, May 1, 2000, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Here are the lascivious lines, cuckolded characters, and politically incorrect notions of the baddest bard of all.

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Presents several hundred of the most famous lines and newly minted words from Shakespeare's canon, complete with background notes, explanations, and literary anecdotes that set the phrases in their original contexts. Original. (view table of contents)

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9780517189351 | Gramercy, August 1, 1998, cover price $6.99
9780060163938 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1990, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Presents some of the most famous lines and newly minted words from Shakespeare, with literary anecdotes that set the phrases in their original contexts to show what was meant

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9780062737328 | 1 sub edition (Harper Resource, February 1, 2000), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents several hundred of the most famous lines and newly minted words from Shakespeare's canon, complete with background notes, explanations, and literary anecdotes that set the phrases in their original contexts.
9780062720184 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | also contains Yahoo! Board Games: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | About this edition: Presents some of the most famous lines and newly- minted words from Shakespeare, with literary anecdotes that set the phrases in their original contexts to show what was meant

By Tom Lulevitch (illustrator) and Michael MacRone

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9780517202845 | Random House Value Pub, April 1, 1999, cover price $7.99

Introduces the gods and goddesses, heroes, beasts, and monsters of classical mythology as well as common words and concepts with origins rooted in mythology

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9780517202876 | Random House Value Pub, March 1, 1999, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Introduces the gods and goddesses, heroes, beasts, and monsters of classical mythology as well as common words and concepts with origins rooted in mythology

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An informative, lighthearted guide to everything biblical from the prodigal son to plowshares covers well-known words, phrases, and stories of the Old and New Testaments, in an illustrated and indexed format.

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9780517201893 | Gramercy, October 1, 1998, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: An informative, lighthearted guide to everything biblical from the prodigal son to plowshares covers well-known words, phrases, and stories of the Old and New Testaments, in an illustrated and indexed format.
9780062700247 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author reveals the many touchstone phrases and words from the Bible that are part of everyday speech, including book, song, and play titles

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9780062720207 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1995, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The entertaining companion to the Bible by the bestselling author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare.

Discusses passages of Shakespeare's works filled with sex, violence, crime, profanity, racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism (view table of contents)
By Tom Lulevitch (illustrator) and Michael MacRone

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9780836227574 | Andrews McMeel Pub, June 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discusses passages of Shakespeare's works filled with sex, violence, crime, profanity, racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism

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Traces hundreds of sayings, mottoes, and maxims to their roots in poetry by writers including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Yeats, and Frost

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9780836221459 | Andrews McMeel Pub, November 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Traces hundreds of sayings, mottoes, and maxims to their roots in poetry by writers including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Yeats, and Frost

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Product Description: The bestselling author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare offers a fun and educational guide to the many obscure and unusual terms that writers often use, including "chaos theory, " "deconstruction, " "collective unconscious, " and "tabula rasa...read more
By Tom Lulevitch (illustrator) and Michael MacRone

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9780062700964 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Translating elusive concepts from philosophy, psychology, science, politics, history, and economics, the author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

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9780062720665 | Perennial, March 1, 1996, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The bestselling author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare offers a fun and educational guide to the many obscure and unusual terms that writers often use, including "chaos theory, " "deconstruction, " "collective unconscious, " and "tabula rasa.

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Offering practical advice and timeless wisdom on human life, a compilation of some four hundred brief selections from the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare is divided into such thematic sections as Virtues and Vices, Life and Death, and Passion and Lust. 20,000 first printing.

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9780517703410 | 1st edition (Crown Pub, March 1, 1996), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A compilation of four hundred brief selections from the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare is divided into such thematic sections as virtues and vices, life and death, and passion and lust

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An animal lover's collection of animal phrases and expressions reveals the history and meanings behind such everyday terms as 'crocodile tears,' 'lame duck,' 'have a cow,' 'monkey suit,' and 'bookworm.'

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9780385475877, titled "Animalogies: A Fine Kettle of Fish and 150 Other Animal Expressions" | 1 edition (Doubleday, October 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of animal phrases and expressions reveals the history and meanings behind such everyday terms as 'lame duck' and 'bookworm'
9780788193460, titled "Animalogies: A Fine Kettle of Fish and 150 Other Animal Expressions" | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An animal lover's collection of animal phrases and expressions reveals the history and meanings behind such everyday terms as ""crocodile tears,"" ""lame duck,"" ""have a cow,"" ""monkey suit,"" and ""bookworm.

The ancient Greek and Roman origins of such everyday phrases as 'all in the same boat' and 'time flies' are revealed in a guidebook to Greco-Roman literature and philosophy
By Tom Lulevitch (illustrator) and Michael MacRone

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9780062700223 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The ancient Greek and Roman origins of such everyday phrases as 'all in the same boat' and 'time flies' are revealed in a guidebook to Greco-Roman literature and philosophy

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9780062720443 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1994), cover price $14.00

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Recounts the stories of classical mythology and catalogs the myriad gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, beasts and monsters, and magical places that have lent their names to our language.
By Tom Lulevitch (illustrator) and Michael MacRone

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9780062700230 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1992, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Recounts the stories of classical mythology and catalogs the myriad gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, beasts and monsters, and magical places that have lent their names to our language

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9780062720191 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1994, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Recounts the stories of classical mythology and catalogs the myriad gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, beasts and monsters, and magical places that have lent their names to our language.

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