Green-Eyed Monsters & Good Samaritans: Literary Allusions in Everyday Language

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Everyday phrases unveil their classic literary origins.

If you love both literature and language, this book is a treasure chest that connects the everyday idioms you use to their surprising literary roots. It's a delightful journey that enriches your appreciation for the phrases we often take for granted and deepens your connection to the literary giants who coined them.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Green-Eyed Monsters & Good Samaritans: Literary Allusions in Everyday Language

Regular price $11.90
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ISBN: 9780071460835
Authors: eonard Mann
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date of Publication: 2006-03-03
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.69
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How King Midas's touch became golden and other stories behind everyday phrases, idioms, and literary allusions. Finding silver would not spark the same excitement if all a prospector could say was, "There it is!" nor would anyone be menacing with the moniker "Arthur the Somewhat Disgruntled." But thanks to thousands of years of evolving language, we have words and phrases like "Eureka!" and "Attila the Hun" that bring color and vibrancy to our conversations and our writing. Unfortunately, often lost in the millennia is the history of how these sayings came to be. Green-Eyed Monsters and Good Samaritans uncovers the tales behind more than 175 phrases, drawing from the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, the works of Shakespeare, and other literary resources.
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Everyday phrases unveil their classic literary origins.

If you love both literature and language, this book is a treasure chest that connects the everyday idioms you use to their surprising literary roots. It's a delightful journey that enriches your appreciation for the phrases we often take for granted and deepens your connection to the literary giants who coined them.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.