INTRODUCTION
Books of quotations answer two basic questions: 'Who said what?' and 'What was said by whom?' The uses to which they are put are many and various: readers', writers' and speakers' companion, crossword-solving aid, memory jogger, a diverting browse.
A pocket book of quotations must...
PROLOGUE
The woman stood as still as the mountains around her, taking in the view from Mount Carraig House - the windswept, overgrown gardens and the ragged path leading down to the small lake. Behind her towered Mount Carraig itself. Rob, the estate agent, had told her that 'Carraig' meant...
Daughter of Deceit Born into the theatrical world of Victorian London, Noelle Tremaston's childhood was unusual but happy, for at the centre of it was her mother, the fascinating, warm-hearted, generous and wildly unconventional Désirée. Désirée had many admirers and chief of these were Charlie...
Foreword
THIS DICTIONARY concentrates on one particular aspect of the grammar and vocabulary of English: combinations of verbs with adverbial or prepositional particles. They are extremely common in English.
These combinations are generally called phrasal verbs. They are often a particular...
MAN AND WIFE Tony Parsons is a columnist for the Mirror and has written for a host of other publications. He was a regular guest on BBC TV's Late Review for six years. His növel Man and Boy is a publishing phenomenon - over a millión copies sold, winner of the UK Book of the Year award and...
Eat the Cold Porridge 'You must eat the cold porridge,' he told me once. It's a Chinese expression. Cantonese, I guess, because although he carried an old-fashioned blue British passport and was happy to call himself an Englishman, he was born in Hong Kong and sometimes you could teli that all the...
MAN AND WIFE Tony Parsons is a columnist for the Mirror and has written for a host of other publications. He was a regular guest on BBC TV's Late Review for six years. His növel Man and Boy is a publishing phenomenon - over a millión copies sold, winner of the UK Book of the Year award and...
FOREWORD
In my hand, I've got a piece of paper. It's Mum's hand-writing, and it's a list mîa very long list - of ali the places we lived until I left home. I look at this list now, and there are just so many of them. My eye moves down the page, trying to take in her spidery scribble, and I soon...
"The Gumbo King is stepping out, and all the pretty ivomen gonna jump and sbout ..." Her eight-year-old heart pounding, Jacy Charlane crouched behind a table of turnips and tomatoes in front of the small grocery and watched the Gumbo King approach. He was singing, his kingsized voice bouncing...
Twenty-five years ago, they were called nerds. Today, they're called billionaires. Even among outcasts, Genoa Greeves suffered more than most. Saddled with a weird name-her parents' love for Italy produced two other children, Pisa and Roma-and a gawky frame, Genoa spent her adolescence in retreat....
Autkors Note
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A Spanish missionary was visiting an island when he came across three Aztec priests.
"How do you pray?" the missionary asked.
"We have only one prayer," answered one of the Aztecs. "We say, 'God, you are three, we are three. Have pity on us.'"
"A beautiful prayer," said...
Hope Len Deighton was trained as an illustrator at the Royal College of Art in London. His writing career began with The Ipcress File which was a spectacular success and was made into a classic film starring Michael Caine. Since then he has written many books of fiction and non-fiction. These...
FOREWORD
The name 'thesaurus' comes from a Greek word meaning treasure, treasury, or storehouse, and the Thesaurus is so named because it is a treasury or storehouse of words. Its purpose is to provide lists of words which mean the same, or almost the same, as the word which the user of the book...
Eat the Cold Porridge 'You must eat the cold porridge,' he told me once. It's a Chinese expression. Cantonese, I guess, because although he carried an old-fashioned blue British passport and was happy to call himself an Englishman, he was born in Hong Kong and sometimes you could teli that all the...
FOREWORD Thfs dictionary Is a new publication in a series which hab hitherto been conflned to the modern languages. Its purpose is to somé extent different from that of the others. In só far as the uses of Latin differ from those of French. Germán. Italian and Spanish. There are two main reasons...
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
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Your Collins Traveller Guide will help you find your way around your holiday destination quickly and easily. It is split into two sections which are colour-coded:
The blue section provides you with an alphabetical sequence of head-ings, from excursions to what to see via...
INTRODUCTION
Sociology is not a tidy subject. As the 'science of society and social relations' its boundaries are wide and difficult to draw. It overlaps with all other social science disciplines, which, as the general science of socicty, it must take into account or can even be said to include....