| Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
(1992)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Author |
| John Bartlett |
| Justin Kaplan |
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| Publication Date |
1992 |
| Format |
Hardcover
(262
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202
mm)
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| Publisher |
Little Brown & Company |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket |
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| Plot |
| This 17th edition, under Kaplan's splendid direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to BARTLETT'S. Newcomers include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Tony Kushner, Tammy Wynette, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Frank O'Hara, Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis, Mother Teresa, Jacques Cousteau, Rudolph Giuliani, Alfred Hitchcock, L. M. Montgomery, Eric Ambler, Jerry Seinfeld, J. K. Rowling, Katharine Graham, and Emma Goldman. With quotations presented in chronological order, in the famous BARTLETT'S tradition, BARTLETT'S gives the reader a vast panorama of the world, from the ancient Egyptians to the latest movie, from the inspirational and the beautiful to the sardonic and the downright funny. |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PN6081.B27 1992 |
| Dewey |
808.88/2 20 |
| ISBN |
0316082775 |
| Edition |
16th ed |
| Cover Price |
$50.00 |
| Nr of Pages |
1405 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes |
| Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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