Description
“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” is a long-standing and widely-distributed American reference book that compiles famous sayings, phrases, and proverbs. The book arranges its entries by author, listed chronologically by their date of birth, rather than by subject. The first edition, published in 1855, was a 258-page collection of quotations from 169 authors, primarily from the Bible, William Shakespeare, and English poets. Since its initial publication, it has been continually revised and expanded, with the 19th edition containing over 20,000 quotes from approximately 4,000 contributors. The book also includes a thorough keyword index and details the source of each quotation.
