Viking Book of Aphorisms

by W.H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880290560
• ISBN13: 9780880290562
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the best collections of aphorisms there is

The aphorisms collected and edited here by Auden and Kronenberger are drawn from more than four hundred of the West's major authors. The book is organized in chapters, "Humanity " "Religion and God" "Nature"" Education"" Society" "The Sexes" "Love, Marriage and Friendship" The Professions" "History " " Action" "Science" " The Arts" "States and Government" " The Life of the Mind" " Life's Minor Pleasures and Trials" " Ages of Man" It seems almost superflous to give good examples , since every page of the work is rich with them. Who loves aphorisms will love this work.