From Library Journal
Subtitled "A Collection of More Than 16,000 Comparison Phrases from Ancient Times to the Present Compiled from Books, Folklore, Magazines, Newspapers, Plays, Politics, Stage, Screen, and Television and Arranged Under More Than 500 Thematic Categories," this work is an outgrowth of a personal collecting habit. It is similar to Ruth Paris and Robert Baldwin's The Book of Similes (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982) but much briefer. Attribution is to author (but not usually to individual work) or to such origins as American colloquialism, Chinese saying, or Anonymous. Brief comments often give the context of a simile. Coverage is idiosyncratic, with George Garrett and T. Coraghessan Boyle among the most quoted. Better suited for browsing, this is for exhaustive collections or where there is a need. William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
