Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: 17th edition: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Rilegato

Kaplan, Justin

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ISBN 10: 0316084603 ISBN 13: 9780316084604

Casa editrice: Little, Brown US, 2002

Riassunto

This 17th edition under Kaplan's splendid direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to BARTLETT'S. Newcomers include Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Kishner, Tammy Wynette, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Martin and Kingsley Amis, Mother Teresa and Jacques Cousteau, Rudolf Giuliani and Jerry Seinfeld, J K Rowling and Alfred Hitchcock among many more. With quotations presented in chronological order, in the famous BARTLETT'S tradition, BARTLETT'S gives the reader a vast panorama of the world, from the ancient Egyptians to the latest movie, from the inspirational and the beautiful to the sardonic and downright funny.

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Descrizione del libro:

* First published in 1855, the 17th edition has been completely updated and revised by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan

L'autore:

Justin Kaplan is the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer prize for biography in 1967 and Walt Whitman: A Life as well as other works. He lives in Cambridge, Mass. With his wife, novelist Anne Bernays.

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• Editore: Little, Brown US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0316084603
• ISBN 13: 9780316084604
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 784
• Redattore: Bartlett John