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Familiar Quotations (1855)

by John Bartlett

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I have used this book, over the years, countless times. I pick it up for some certain thing and the next thing I know, it's two in the morning and I haven't even noticed! I only wish it had more, more, more! ( )
  drmarymccormack | Jul 20, 2011 |
Excellent resource for quotations ( )
  ronbolulu | Dec 14, 2010 |
Enjoyed browsing, useful tool for writers and preparing school presentations, papers. Great musing and journaling stimulus. ( )
  pre20cenbooks | Dec 14, 2010 |
The index is great for finding quotations by the word you remember (assuming the word is actually in the quote) However, one of my favorite things to do is to peruse the main body of the work which is in chronological order by author. It gives you a flavor of individual authors as well as the style and concerns of different periods of English literature. ( )
  aulsmith | Jul 18, 2010 |
My best, my oldest friend. Helped me through college and graduate school. Still a faithful and amusing companion -- even when I am not. I love my copy of Bartlett's and wouldn't trade it, even for a newer edition. There's too many notes in the margins. I could never part with it. ( )
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Mine is yesterday, I know tomorrow. Book of the Dead [c. 3500 B.C. and after]
Historical Note:  The University Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was college for John Bartlett.
- 14th Edition
Historical Note:  "Go, litel bok."  Sent forth in 1855, John bartlett's modest volume of Familiar Quotations was destined, likre Chaucer's tale, to its own immortality, and it established him as a perpetuator of the immortals.
- 15th Edition
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Familiar Quotations are the same book.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316082775, Hardcover)

This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan.

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