Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

by John Bartlett

Publisher:

Little, Brown, and Company

, 1914

Overview

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has long since been accepted as indispensable to every scholar and to every writer; it is a book for every library and every household. Embodying years of labor and research on the part of its author, Familiar Quotations passed through many editions, each enlarged, and attained a sale of three hundred thousand copies before Mr. Bartlett’s death in 1905 at the age of eighty-five. Unrevised for twenty-three years, it has remained the best book of the kind, though a considerable body of apothegms have been knocking for admittance to its classic hall of fame. In this new edition the main body of John Bartlett’s compilation, up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, has been left practically unchanged; the chief purpose of the revision has been to incorporate in the work quotations from those writers whose place in literature has been achieved since the issue of the Ninth Edition in 1891.

Key Features

• Offers an outstanding collection of quotes that have influenced our language and culture
• Features a carefully curated source of wit and wisdom
• Provides a survey of influential individuals in world history

Product Details

• Title: Familiar Quotations
• Author: John Bartlett
• Edition: Tenth Edition
• Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company
• Print Publication Date: 1914
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 1454
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Quotations, English
• Resource ID: LLS:FAMQUOTES
• Resource Type: text.monograph.quotations
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-01-18T22:07:23Z

About John Bartlett

John Bartlett was an American writer and publisher whose best known work, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, has been continually revised and reissued for a century after his death.