Kuskovskaya, S.

English Proverbs and Sayings

Минск: Вышэйшая школа, 1987.

Item #34187

Hardcover, 253 pp.

In English and Russian

Proverbs, or sayings, are short senten-ces. expressing a well-known truth; or a common fact familiar to experience. They cover many of the aspects of human life, and, as they refer mostly to everyday facts they are highly colloquial. Short and well constructed sentences, they are easily memorized. Proverbs of different countries often convey similar general ideas in an entirely different form.
This book is an attempt to group certain proverbs, or sayings, according to a possible similarity of ideas conveyed by them. These classified proverbs amount to over a thou-sand. They are given with Russian translations or, when possible, with Russian equivalents of a varying degree of adequacy. Any of these proverbs may be found either listed thematically, or by reference to the English and Russian indexes given in alphabetical order in the book.
The book is addressed to the general reader. It may prove useful to students of both English and Russian, to students of philology, psychology, folklore, social his-tory, as well as to teachers of literature.

Price: $17.00