Familiar Quotations
John Bartlett · 1855
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Description
John Bartlett, a Cambridge bookseller, first published Familiar Quotations in 1855 to answer customers who asked where lines came from. The ninth edition of 1891 is the mature Victorian form. It traces famous passages, phrases, and proverbs to their sources.
Quotations run from the Bible and Shakespeare to the poets and statesmen of Bartlett's own day. Full indexes of authors and subjects help readers find a half-remembered line. Bartlett's became the name of the whole genre in America. The 1891 edition shows what the educated world of that age knew by heart, or wished it did. Bartlett himself checked each line against its source with bookseller's care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | John Bartlett |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1855 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2625489 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |