Behold the proverbs of a people : proverbial wisdom in culture, literature, and politics / Wolfgang Mieder.

"The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb...

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Main Author: Mieder, Wolfgang (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
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