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Adobe Digital Editions Modo de acesso: World Wide Web 263p. ISBN 978-85-8105-091-1 (recurso eletrônico) 1. Ficção espanhola. I. Aguiar, Eliana. II. Título. 12-2817 CDD: 863 CDU: 821.134.2-3
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.
~ Charles Darwin
'Hellboy 1' was such a huge, huge overperformer on Blu-ray and ancillary markets. It was one of the first movies on Blu-ray; it has multiple editions. All the ancillary markets overperformed everywhere. And the second one did good on all ancillary markets, which now do not exist.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Time removes us from all texts and subtexts and so cripples our ability to detect tacit references—which is why, as history marches on, annotated editions of the classics, including the Bible, become longer and longer.
~ Christopher A. Hall
What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?
~ Virginia Woolf
The form of the text known as Byzantine is not quoted by writers of the first three Christian centuries, which suggests that it is a later form. Also it tends to combine readings (as a later harmonizing writer might do) when other texts have two different readings. Since the Byzantine text was widespread in later centuries (and therefore often called the "majority" text), it was used for the earliest printed editions of the Greek New Testament and underlies the King James Version.
~ Walter L. Liefeld
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
~ Oscar Wilde
In other words, at the time of Johnson's death in 1784, and thirty years after its first publication, there were about 6,000 copies of the complete English editions of the Dictionary in circulation, in addition to a few hundred copies
~ Henry Hitchings
I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.
~ Eli Roth
As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
~ Osman Rashid
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
~ Norman MacCaig
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.
~ Jan Tschichold
All information contained within this book has been researched from reputable sources. If any information is found to be false, please contact the publishers, who will be happy to make corrections for future editions.
~ Jack Goldstein
Si tratta delle pagine iniziali della primissima edizione de Il senso religioso, pubblicata nel 1958 con l'imprimatur della Curia di Milano e stampata dalla Presidenza Diocesana Milanese della Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica. Del libro uscirono nuove edizioni, rivedute e ampliate, nel 1968, nel 1986 e nel 1997 (Rizzoli).
~ Unknown
There being no international copyright laws, "pirated" editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.
~ Neil Postman