Familiar quotations a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bartlett, John, 1820-1905
Other Authors:	Kaplan, Justin
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Little, Brown, 1992.
Edition:	16th ed.
Subjects:	Quotations, English. Aphorisms and Proverbs.
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Physical Description:	lvi, 1405 p. ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	0316082775 :
Author Notes:	Justin Kaplan was born in Manhattan, New York on September 5, 1925. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University, followed by graduate work in the field there, but he left before earning a doctorate to work as a freelance writer and book editor. His first book, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1967 and a National Book Award. His other works include Lincoln Steffens: A Biography, When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age, and Walt Whitman: A Life, which won a National Book Award. He also wrote books with his wife Anne Bernays including The Language of Names and Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York. He was the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on March 2, 2014 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography)

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