Familiar Quotations - Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and Phrases in Common Use
by:
John Bartlett (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781444651225 (1444651226)
Publish date: July 24th 2009
Publisher: James Press
Pages no: 534
Edition language: English
Won this as a strange academic prize in secondary school. I REALLY loved this book.
The strongest reason for getting rid of this book is the reason I probably never will--this stood on the family bookshelves before I was born--this edition is from 1955. I remember browsing through it as a child and finding quotations that spoke to me. As such it was a gateway to literature, since i...