Download or read book Wise Words Pbdirect written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive overview of the fascinating advances in the field of paremiology.