ABSTRACT
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.
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chapter 19|28 pages
“The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence”
An American Proverb of Discontent
