Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

19th Edition

Geoffrey O'Brien, John Bartlett

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Little, Brown & Company
31 January 2023

Dictionaries of quotations; Directories; Self-help & personal development

"More than 150 years after its initial publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations now enters its nineteenth edi tion. 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 con tributors. Spanning centuries of thought and culture, it remains the finest and most popular compendium of quotations ever assembled.

While continuing to draw on timeless classi cal references, this edition also incorporates more than 3,000 new quotes from more than 700 new sources, including Alison Bechdel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Pope Francis, Atul Gawande, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hilary Mantel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Claudia Rankine, Fred Rogers, Bernie Sanders, Patti Smith, and Malala Yousafzai. Bartlett's showcases the thoughts not only of renowned figures from the arts, literature, politics, science, sports, and business, but also of otherwise unknown individuals whose thought-provoking ideas have moved, unsettled, or inspired readers and listeners throughout the ages.

Bartlett's makes searching for the perfect quote easy in three ways: alphabetically by author, chrono logically by the author's birth date, or thematically by subject. Whether one is searching for appropriate remarks for a celebration, comforting thoughts for a serious occasion, or simply to answer the question ""Who said that?"" Bartlett's offers readers and schol ars alike a stunning treasury of words that have influ enced"

By: Geoffrey O'Brien, John Bartlett
Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 19th ed.
Dimensions: Height: 256mm, Width: 202mm, Spine: 54mm
Weight: 2.040kg
ISBN: 9780316375306
ISBN 10: 0316375306
Pages: 1640
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (19th Edition)

"""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"