This is not your grand dad's Bartlett's. The most substantial revision in this reference standard contains more than 2,500 new quotations including fresh snippets from Jimi Hendrix, Bill Gates, Julia Child, Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, and Paul Krugman.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
by John Bartlett, Geoffrey O'Brien (Editor)
More than 150 years after its original publication, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. BARTLETT'S showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs,
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Brought to you by Library of America editor in chief O'Brien, this 18th edition of the immortal Bartlett's includes 2500 new quotes and more than 800 newcomers, from Julia Child to David Foster Wallace. Quotes have been culled to bring in more foreigners and women and more material from fiction and poetry; a companion app brings this chestnut into the 21st century. My favorite featured quote, from Walter Benjamin: "Books and harlots have their quarrels in public."Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780316017596
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company
- Publication date:
- 11/06/2012
- Pages:
- 1504
- Sales rank:
- 129,233
- Product dimensions:
- 7.60(w) x 10.00(h) x 2.20(d)
Meet the Author
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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If you're looking for a title to your novel or original screenplay, start with this exhaustive compilation of the great quotations of the world. Another reason to use it is to find out whether it was Mark Twain or H. L. Mencken who first said dotty things about California!
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is back in its 17th edition better then ever. It continues its tradition of being one of the best refrence books avaliable. Whether your a student or not Bartlett's Quotations is a great book for pleasure or study.
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Purchased for fast access anywhere to lots of quotations - in nook app on iPad took horribly long to load . Deleted same day and lost a dollar and too much time.
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Will not even load, don't waste your money
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Am enjoying this book, love looking through it and seeing all of the quotations and who the quotes are attributed to. Love picking out my favorites and marking them! Can pick up this book and find new quotes that I love everytime that I read this book. Love it!!
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Any serious writer, and even those not so serious, will benefit by having this book as a handy reference. I keep my copy close to the computer and use it often. I can't imagine not having it in my own personal library.
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I have repeatedly used a previous edition and purchased this for a niece and great niece to have as a resource for everyday quotation questions.
It is an essential library addition.
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