Familiar Quotations, Vintage Edition - John Bartlett

Familiar Quotations, Vintage Edition

By John Bartlett

  • Release Date: 2015-01-17
  • Genre: Quotations

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Vintage, pre-1923, edition of the classic reference work.  As explained in the preface: "The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become "household words." John Bartlett (June 14, 1820 – December 3, 1905) 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."

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