Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (19th Edition)
$199.84
- Hardcover
1640 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2023
Summary
More than 150 years after its initial publication, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations now enters its nineteenth edition. First compiled by John Bartlett, a bookseller in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a commonplace book of only 258 pages, the original 1855 edition mainly featured selections from the Bible, Shakespeare, and the great English poets. Today, Bartlett’s includes more than 20,000 quotes from roughly 4,000 contributors. Spanning centuries of thought and culture, it remai…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316375306 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316375306 |
| Author: | John Bartlett, Geoffrey O'Brien |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1640 |
| Edition: | 19th |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 2.05kg |
| Dimensions: | 256mm x 202mm x 54mm |
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Critics Review
“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations remains the go-to source for checking who said what, when, and where. The massive manual of missives and mottos has enabled writers, students, and even gamblers (‘Bet you don’t know who said … ‘) to get it right.”–Dave Kindy, Boston Globe
About The Author
John Bartlett
Geoffrey O’Brien is the editor-in-chief of The Library of America, and author of fifteen books, most recently The Fall of the House of Walworth, and other works including Hardboiled America, Dream Time, The Phantom Empire, The Times Square Story, The Browser’s Ecstasy, Castaways of the Image Planet, and Sonata for Jukebox. He has contributed frequently to The New York Review of Books, Artforum, Film Comment, and other publications. He lives in New York City.
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