 | Johanna Hurwitz - Juvenile Fiction - 2006 - 180 pages
In early twentieth-century Vermont, sixteen-year-old Emma confides in her diary both her hopes of becoming a farmer's wife one day and her frustrations with her parents' belief ... | |
 | Wolfgang Mieder - Proverbs - 2010 - 570 pages
In barely forty years of life Martin Luther King (1929-1968) distinguished himself as one of the greatest social reformers of modern times: civil rights leader, defender of ... | |
 | Reference - 2012 - 310 pages
Collects more than 1,400 English-language proverbs that arose in the 20th and 21st centuries, organized alphabetically by key words and including information on date of origin ... | |
 | Donald Hall, Mary Azarian - Fiction - 2012 - 96 pages
Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940 ... | |
 | Wolfgang Mieder - History - 2002 - 274 pages
This book is an attempt to trace the origin, history, dissemination, and meaning of the well-known proverbial expression «to call a spade a spade.» The first four chapters ... | |
 | Geroge B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder - Drama - 1995 - 384 pages
Proverbial language figures prominently in the works of Eugene O'Neill (1883-1953), the recipient of four Pulitzer prizes and a Nobel laureateship for literature. This book is ... | |
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