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Hardcover Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Book

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Book Overview

First published in 1855, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely updated and revised for the seventeenth edition by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. 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. New comers 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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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
still the best

Bartlett's is still the best resource for researching quotations, better than anything I found on the net, including a site that was called Bartlett's. The print Bartlett's does an excellent job of cross-referencing, so when I wanted to track the original source of a quotation, only the print Bartlett's solved the problem. That's why I bought this copy for my local library. Computers haven't solved every research problem...

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Rated 4 stars
Comprehensive but mostly ancient--worth 3.5 stars

This is a fine book, loaded with familiar (and some unfamiliar) quotations. Many of them are ancient-demonstrating the wisdom of the past. [Note: all the quotes below are from Familiar Quotations, John Bartlett, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1968] Frequently, they reveal who said a familiar bit of wisdom: p. 86a: "Every man is like the company he is wont to keep." Euripides, Phoenix, fragment 809 or p. 91a: "Let each...

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Rated 5 stars
How Do They Know That?

I always wondered how speakers knew all those quotations. Now I know. They check "Barltett's Quotations."This book consists of an extensive collection of thousands of familiar quotations from hundreds of sources spanning the history of the world. Biblical books, literary works, historical figures, authors, politicians, religious figures and even the anonymous all contribute to this vast collection.The collection is assembled...

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Rated 5 stars
Required For the Serious Public Speaker or Persuasive Writer

I'm a politician and frequently prepare speeches and articles that are meant to persuade or provide appropriate commentary. Bartlett's is indespensible if your style accomodates the quoting of others. For those moments when I must mark events (Memorial Day) or meet an expectation of seriousness I find Bartlett's to be an excellent source for just the right phrase.This is a massive reference book, which is good in and...

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Rated 5 stars
Superb Dictionairy of Quotations, equally superb index

This is a 'thinking man's' book, it is very well laid out, includes many (sometimes very obscure) quotations, is extremely well on sources (something that is so blatantly absent from many dictionairies of quotations), and includes a large amount of cross-references (although you can find a lot more yourself by careful browsing). If you buy only one book of quotations, this should be your choice. A good second is Oxford's,...

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