New York in Quotations

'Make your mark in New York and you are a made man' wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach: it's 'an aviary over-stocked with jays' (O. Henry), 'a sucked orange' (Ralph Waldo Emerson) or 'fantastically charmless and elaborately dire' (Henry James). Over the last three-and-a-half centuries this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose or the ultimate wisecrack.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851244204
• ISBN13: 9781851244201
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 3.7" x 4.8"