Title:
Familiar quotations : a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature
Author:
Bartlett, John, 1820-1905, compiler.
ISBN:
9780316082754
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Edition:
15th and 125th anniversary ed., rev. and enl.
Publication Information:
Boston : Little Brown, 1980.
Physical Description:
lviii, 1540 pages ; 26 cm
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Contents:
Preface to the Fifteenth edition -- Historical note -- Guide to the use of Familiar Quotations -- Index of authors -- Familiar Quotations, from ancient Egypt and the Bible to the present -- Index.
Abstract:
Chronologically arranged entries supply quotations from 2,250 authors and major collective or anonymous works, with an alphabetical index of authors and an index to the text.
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