Hemingway didn't say that : the truth behind familiar quotations
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Published
New York : Little A., [2017].
Edition
First edition.
Status
Rapid City Public Library - Language Arts - Adult
LANGUAGE ARTS 080.9 OTO
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LANGUAGE ARTS 080.9 OTO
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Published
New York : Little A., [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description
Garson O'Toole -- the Internet's foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings -- collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe. Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O'Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
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