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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Hardcover
This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan.
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- PublisherRoutledge & Kegan Paul PLC
- Publication date1923
- ISBN 10 0710010567
- ISBN 13 9780710010568
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages532
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and Phrases in Common Use (Author's Edition)
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ISBN 13: 9780710010568
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. An undated UK edition (likely c.1970s) of John Barlett's famous compilation of notable quotations. The phrases are grouped by author, such as William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson or Jonathan Swift. Includes a section of quotations from the Old and New Testaments. Key words indexed at back of volume. --- In rust cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in simple pale yellow typographic dust jacket. --- The typeface is rather small in this edition, with prior owner's embossed circular stamp half title page, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Jacket flap has been clipped, but the £2.00 net price is intact, and with a couple of tears at crease points; else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; viii, 524 pages. Seller Inventory # 86248
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