Familiar Quotations

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Who said the following?
(a) "In wildness is the preservation of the world."
(b) "All hell broke loose."
(c) "You are the sunshine of my life."
(answers on back flap)
These are just three of the more than 22,500 quotations (more than 2,500 of them making their first appearance) you'll find in this newly revised and updated Fifteenth Edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, a special 125th anniversary issue of the classic, indispensable reference work originated by John Bartlett in 1855.
Bartlett's Fifteenth Edition has been expanded to include more than 400 new authors both historical and contemporary — from Susan B. Anthony and Muhammad Ali to Mozart and Mick Jagger — as well as redesigned in a larger, more readable format which accommodates more quotations in less space and for the first time supplies each quotation with a number for ready index reference. In both content and style, this Bartlett continues the tradition of its predecessors, especially in handing on,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Who said the following?
(a) "In wildness is the preservation of the world."
(b) "All hell broke loose."
(c) "You are the sunshine of my life."
(answers on back flap)
These are just three of the more than 22,500 quotations (more than 2,500 of them making their first appearance) you'll find in this newly revised and updated Fifteenth Edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, a special 125th anniversary issue of the classic, indispensable reference work originated by John Bartlett in 1855.
Bartlett's Fifteenth Edition has been expanded to include more than 400 new authors both historical and contemporary — from Susan B. Anthony and Muhammad Ali to Mozart and Mick Jagger — as well as redesigned in a larger, more readable format which accommodates more quotations in less space and for the first time supplies each quotation with a number for ready index reference. In both content and style, this Bartlett continues the tradition of its predecessors, especially in handing on, "without fear or favor," as former editor Christopher Morley put it, "what looks to be most memorable of man'sjoy, suspicion, and dismay."
Since the last edition of Bartlett twelve years ago, we have been to the moon, lost a war, seen a President resign, turned great attention towards science, politics, and economics, and become increasingly concerned with ecology and the safety of our environment as well as with important movements for social change. In fact, since Neil Armstrong's dramatic and historic message from the surface of the moon — "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" — the decade of the Seventies has given us a wealth of influential words and expressions that reflect
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society's rapidly changing attitudes, opinions, and interests.
With the aid of a number of outstanding scholars and experts, editor Emily Morison Beck and the Little, Brown editorial staff reviewed the Bartlett text, making numerous additions not only from contemporary life and literature but throughout, from the writings of ancient Egypt, whose King Tutankhamen so piqued our national interest, across more than forty centuries to today.
More translations from non-English works appear in this new Bartlett, besides some fresh translations of others already in the text. For the first time, the enlarged sections of Anonymous entries include sea shanties, cowboy songs, and spirituals, as well as traditional poems and chants from Africa and from North American Indians. Even the great Bible, classical, and Shakespeare sections, central to every Bartlett, have been examined and expanded, along with the sections of Buddhist and Sanskrit writings and the Koran.
The result is a living work, a Bartlett that perpetuates the high standards of earlier editions yet is a more valuable resource than ever before for the speaker, writer, and student, for the lover of language and literature, for all of us who, at one time or another, want to know, "Who said that?"
Whether for inspiration, information, as a gift, or for sheer entertainment, pick up this Fifteenth Edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and be amazed to discover just how much and how little we have changed.
(answers) (a) Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862) (b)John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) (c) Stevie Wonder, You Are the Sunshine of My Life (1972)
Jacket design by Paul Bacon Vissza