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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, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy.In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.
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- Author
- John Bartlett; Geoffrey O'Brien
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780316250214
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Reference, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.28 / 5 (141 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations : A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (1980)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2002)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (2002)
- Familiar Quotations : Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Sources Passages and Phrases in Common Use (2015)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968)
- John Bartlett's familiar quotations : from the greatest poets, writers, playwrights and literati in the English language (2018)
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (18ed) (2014)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations : a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (2014)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations : a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (1855)
- BARTLETT’S Familiar Quotations John Bartlett (1980)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2022)
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