Bartlett's Familiar Quotations : A Collection Of Passages Phrases And Proverbs Traced To Their Sources In Ancient And Modern Literature

A longtime classic returns in a new and updated edition. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, edited by Justin Kaplan, now contains more than 20,000 quotes from 2,500 people, including 90 newcomers. Among the names recently added to this hallowed list are J.K Rowling, Mary Oliver, Tony Kushner, Jerry Seinfeld, Emma Goldman, Tammy Wynette, and Maya Angelou. Take Winston Churchill's advice: "It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently."

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.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Distributor: Hachette Book Group USA
Publication Date: 10-22-2002
Pages: 1488
Measurements: 10.25in X 8in X 2in X 3.97lb