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Bartlett's familiar quotations, a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature, John Bartlett

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Bartlett's familiar quotations, a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature, John Bartlett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bartlett's familiar quotations

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1346479029

Responsibility statement

John Bartlett

Sub title

a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature

Summary

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

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Familiar quotations

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