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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

By: John Bartlett,Geoffrey O'Brien

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

By: John Bartlett,Geoffrey O'Brien

More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.

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Little, Brown

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031625018X

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9780316250184

Unbought Spirit

A John Jay Chapman Reader

By: John Jay Chapman

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Unbought Spirit

A John Jay Chapman Reader

By: John Jay Chapman

In this collection of his essays and a sampling of his letters, John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) embraces the world at large. Predicting the depersonalization of twentieth-century society, Chapman argues that a civilization based upon a commerce which is in all its parts corruptly managed will present a social life which is unintelligent and mediocre, made up of people afraid of each other, whose ideas are shopworn, whose manners are self-conscious. Chapman should be studied more carefully and at full length, Edmund Wilson wrote in 1929, but in the meantime, what is most important is to have his essays made accessible.... If his books were reprinted and read, we should recognize that we possess in John Jay Chapman -- by reason of the intensity of the spirit, the brilliance of the literary gift and the continuity of the thought which they embody -- an American classic. Jacques Barzun has observed, We have produced very few great critics, but John Jay Chapman equals any of his foreign contemporaries. An American original, Chapman is a tonic to cynicism and an antidote to a society gone flaccid and complacent.

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University of Illinois Press

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025206724X

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9780252067242

The Selected Letters of John Cage

By: John Cage

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The Selected Letters of John Cage

By: John Cage

This annotated selection of more than five hundred letters by the groundbreaking composer and avant-garde icon covers every phase of his career. This volume reveals the intimate life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham. They shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-garde. Written in Cage’s singular voice—by turns profound, irreverent, and funny—these letters reveal Cage’s passionate interest in people, ideas, and the arts. They include correspondence with Peter Yates, David Tudor, and Pierre Boulez, among many others. Readers will enjoy Cage's commentary about the people and events of a transformative time in the arts, as well as his meditations on the very nature of art. This volume presents an extraordinary portrait of a complex, brilliant man who challenged and changed the artistic currents of the twentieth century.

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673

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819575925

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9780819575920

American Poetry 19th Century 2

By: John Hollander

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American Poetry 19th Century 2

By: John Hollander

First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor notes on the texts within.

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Routledge

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1135922748

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9781135922740

If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?

Smart Quotes for Dumb Times

By: John Lloyd,John Mitchinson

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If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?

Smart Quotes for Dumb Times

By: John Lloyd,John Mitchinson

John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of tongue in cheek. Their gifts are on full display in Quote Interesting, a lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, Lloyd and Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs like: “The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.” —Victor Lewis Smith “When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.” —Henry James “I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” —Nancy Reagan “You know ‘that look’ women get when they want sex? Me neither.” —Steve Martin

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Crown

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0307460673

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9780307460677

George Santayana

A Biography

By: John Rodden

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George Santayana

A Biography

By: John Rodden

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing significantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the first full-scale volume to treat an elusive figure's life and thought in the detail they deserve. Santayana's life was rich in its interior and outer associations. There was his birth and early childhood in Spain followed by a move to Boston, where he came under the influence of William James at Harvard. This led to his career at Harvard as a professor, where Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walter Lippmann were among his devoted students. We see Santayana in correspondence and conversation with Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell. Predominant in Santayana's life was his philosophical work. Hostile to the dominant empiricism of Anglo-American philosophy, he left the academy and remained detached from both the political and ideological movements of early decades of the twentieth century. McCormick relates his skepticism and materialism to a form of idealism deriving from his classical education in Plato and Aristotle, together with his readings in Descartes and Spinoza. He presents Santayana as a supreme stylist in English, who lived a long life always consistent with his stoic epicureanism.

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705

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Routledge

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1351517627

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9781351517621

QI: Advanced Banter

By: John Lloyd,John Mitchinson

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QI: Advanced Banter

By: John Lloyd,John Mitchinson

The ultimate compendium of crisp one-liners, knockout jokes, droll asides and universal truths collected over the years by the creators of QI. 'You know 'that look' women get when they want sex? Me neither.' Steve Martin; 'You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.' Chinese proverb; 'The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.' Victor Lewis-Smith; 'Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.' Mark Twain; 'Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember: it didn't work for the rabbit.' R.E. Shay; 'If it were not for quotations, conversation between gentlemen would be an endless series of 'what-ho's!'' P. G.Wodehouse

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Faber & Faber

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0571248233

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9780571248230

Unbought Spirit

A John Jay Chapman Reader

By: John Jay Chapman

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A John Jay Chapman Reader

By: John Jay Chapman

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University of Illinois Press

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025206724X

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VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

By: Victor Emmanuel 1890-1916 Chapman,John Jay 1862-1933 Chapman

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VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

By: Victor Emmanuel 1890-1916 Chapman,John Jay 1862-1933 Chapman

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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137173271X

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VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

By: Victor 1890-1916 Chapman,John Jay 1862-1933 Chapman

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VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

By: Victor 1890-1916 Chapman,John Jay 1862-1933 Chapman

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Unbought Spirit

Unbought Spirit

The Selected Letters of John Cage

The Selected Letters of John Cage

American Poetry 19th Century 2

American Poetry 19th Century 2

If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?

If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?

George Santayana

George Santayana

QI: Advanced Banter

QI: Advanced Banter

Unbought Spirit

Unbought Spirit

VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

VICTOR CHAPMANS LETTERS FROM F

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