Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Carter, Rosalynn. First Lady from Plains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

  Cary, M., et al., eds. Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940.

  Castelot, André. Marie Antoinette d’après des documents inédits. Paris: Amiot-Dumont, 1953.

  Castelot, André. Paris: The Turbulent City 1783–1871, trans. Denise Foliot. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

  Castelot, André. Philippe Egalité: Le Prince rouge. Paris: SFELT, 1950.

  Castlerosse, Valentine, Viscount. Valentine’s Days. Cavett, Dick, and Christopher Porterfield. Eye on Cavett. New York: Arbor House, 1983.

  Cecil, Lord David. Max: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

  Cecil, Lord David. Melbourne. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1954.

  Celebrity Research Group. The Bedside Book of Celebrity Gossip. New York: Crown Publishers, 1984.

  Cerf, Bennett A. Bumper Crop of Anecdotes and Stories. New York: Garden City Books, 1959.

  Cerf, Bennett A. Good for a Laugh. New York: Hanover House, 1952.

  Cerf, Bennett A. Laughing Stock. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945.

  Cerf, Bennett A. The Life of the Party. New York: Hanover House, 1956.

  Cerf, Bennett A. Shake Well Before Using. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948.

  Cerf, Bennett A. Treasury of Atrocious Puns. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

  Cerf, Bennett A. Try and Stop Me. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944.

  Chambers, Andrea. Dream Resorts. New York: C. N. Potter, 1983.

  Chancellor, John. Charles Darwin. New York: Taplinger, 1976.

  Charteris, E. Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse. New York: Haskell House, 1982.

  Cheever, Susan. Home Before Dark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

  Chekhov, Anton. The Image of Chekhov: Forty Stories in the Order in Which They Were Written, trans. Robert Payn. New York: Vintage, 1963.

  Chelminski, Rudolph. The French at Table. Chesterton, G. K. Charles Dickens: The Last of the Great Men. New York: The Press of the Reader’s Club, 1942.

  Chubb, Edwin W. Sketches of Great Painters. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1915.

  Churchill, Winston S. Great Contemporaries. New York: Putnam, 1937.

  Churchill, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures. London: T. Butterworth, 1932.

  Claiborne, Robert. Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language. New York: New York Times Books, 1983.

  Clark, Eric. Diplomat: The World of International Diplomacy. New York: Taplinger, 1974.

  Clark, Ronald W. The Huxleys. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

  Clark, Ronald W. The Life of Bertrand Russell. New York: Knopf, 1976.

  Clemens, Clara. My Father Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Bros., 1931.

  Cliffe, Leigh. Anecdotal Reminiscences. Cocteau, Jean. Past tense. Vol I: Diaries, trans. Richard Howard. Cohen, J. M., and M. J. Cohen. Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. New York: Penguin, 1982.

  Coleridge, Samuel T. Kubla Khan. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1816.

  Coleridge, Samuel T. Table Talk. 3rd ed. London: J. Murray, 1851.

  Collier, James L. Louis Armstrong: An American Genius. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

  Collier, Peter, and David Horowitz. The Kennedys: An American Drama. New York: Summit Books, 1984.

  Collier, Richard. The Freedom Road: 1944-1945. New York: Atheneum, 1984.

  Collier, Richard. The Rainbow People. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984.

  Collier, Richard. The Road to Pearl Harbor 1941. New York: Atheneum, 1981.

  Colman, George. Circle of Anecdote and Wit. London: J. Williams, 1826.

  Compton’s Picture Encyclopedia. Chicago: F. E. Compton, 1968 ed. Connelly, Marcus. Voices Offstage: A Book of Memoirs. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968.

  Conrad, Barnaby. Famous Last Words. New York: Doubleday, 1961.

  Conrad, Barnaby. Fun While It Lasted. New York: Random House, 1969.

  Considine, Bob. It’s All News to Me: A Reporter’s Deposition. New York: Meredith, 1967.

  Cooke, Alistair. The Patient Has the Floor. New York: Knopf, 1986.

  Cooke, Alistair. Six Men. New York: Knopf, 1977.

  Cooper, A. Duff. Tallyrand. London: Jonathan Cape, 1932.

  Cooper, Jilly. Class. New York: Knopf, 1981.

  Copeland, Lewis, and Faye Copeland. 10,000 Jokes, Toasts and Stories. New York: Halcyon House, 1939.

  Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. The Man in Lincoln’s Nose. New York: Fireside Books, 1990.

  Corn, Wanda. The Art of Andrew Wyeth. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museum, 1973.

  Cornell, Tim, and John Matthews. Atlas of the Roman World. New York: Facts on File, 1982.

  Coughlin, Robert. The Private World of William Faulkner. New York: Harper, 1954.

  Cowan, Lore, and Maurice Cowan. The Wit of Women. London: Leslie Frewin, 1969.

  Cowles, Virginia. The Kaiser. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

  Cowley, Malcolm. The View from 80. New York: Viking, 1980.

  Cox, Stephen. Here’s Johnny: Thirty Years of America’s Favorite Late Night Entertainment. New York: Harmony Books, 1992.

  Craig, Gordon. The Germans. New York: Putnam, 1982.

  Crankshaw, Edward. Bismarck. New York: Viking, 1981.

  Crankshaw, Edward. The Fall of the House of Hapsburg. New York: Viking, 1963.

  Crankshaw, Edward. Maria Theresa. New York: Viking, 1970.

  Crankshaw, Edward. The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia’s Drift to Revolution. New York: Viking, 1976.

  Crankshaw, Edward. Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist. New York: Viking, 1974.

  Crankshaw, Edward. Vienna: The Image of a Culture in Decline. New York: Macmillan, 1938.

  Craven, Thomas. Men of Art. Garden City, N.Y.: Halcyon House, 1931.

  Creamer, Robert W. The Babe — The Legend Comes to Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

  Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origins and Nature. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.

  Cronin, Vincent. Louis XIV. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

  Cronin, Vincent. Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography. New York: Morrow, 1972.

  Cronin, Vincent. The View from Planet Earth: Man Looks at the Cosmos. New York: Morrow, 1981.

  Crouser, Richard L. It’s Unlucky to Be Behind at the End of the Game and Other Sports Retorts. New York: Morrow, 1983.

  Crow, Bill. Jazz Anecdotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  Culbertson, Judi, and Tom Randall. Permanent New Yorkers. Royalton, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1987.

  Cummings, W. H. Dr. Arne and Rule, Britannia. Cunningham, Allan. Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors. New York: J. Harper, 1831.

  Curtis, George Ticknor. Life of Daniel Webster. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870.

  Daiches, David. James Boswell and His World. New York: Scribner, 1976.

  “Daily Mirror” Old Codger’s Little Black Book, The. London: Mirror Books, 1977.

  Daintith, John, Sarah Mitchell, and Elizabeth Tootill. Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists. New York: Facts on File, 1981.

  Dale, Alzina Stone. The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdman’s, 1982.

  Dance, Stanley. The World of Count Basie. New York: Scribner, 1980.

  Daniel, Clifton. Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: A Memoir. New York: Arbor House, 1984.

  Darwin, Charles. Autobiography. Rpt., New York: Norton, 1969.

  Davenport, Guy. The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981.

  David, Philip, and Reuben Hersh. The Mathematical Experience. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

  Davidson, Angus. Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1812–1888). New York: Dutton, 1939.

  Davin, Dan. Closing Times. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

  Davies, Thomas. Dramatic Miscellanies. London, 1783–84.

  Davis, A. R., ed. The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse, trans. Robert Kotew
all and Norman L. Smith. Baltimore: Penguin, 1962.

  Deighton, Len. Action Cook Book: Len Deighton’s Guide to Eating. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

  Delaney, Frank, and Jorge Lewinski. James Joyce’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.

  De Morgan, Augustus. The Encyclopedia of Eccentrics. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1974.

  De Stoeckl, Agnes, and Wilfred S. Edwards. When Men Had Times to Love. London: J. Murray, 1953.

  Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of. The House: A Portrait of Chatsworth. London: Macmillan, 1982.

  Dickson, Paul. Baseball’s Greatest Quotations. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

  Dictionary of National Bioigraphy. Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, eds. 63 vols., supplements. London: Oxford University Press, 1885–1900, 1921–1927, 1960.

  Diehl, Digby. Supertalk. New York: Doubleday, 1974.

  Dietrich, Marlene. Marlene. New York: Grove Press, 1989.

  Dietz, Howard. Dancing in the Dark. New York: Quadrangle, 1974.

  Diliberto, Gioia. Hadley. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.

  Diogenes Laertius. Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928.

  D’Israeli, Isaac. Curiosities of Literature. Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman & Holden, 1833.

  D’Israeli, Isaac. Miscellanies of Literature. New York: J. and H. G. Langley, 1841.

  Dole, Robert, ed. Great Political Wit: Laughing (Almost) All the Way to the White House. New York: Doubleday, 1998.

  Dolin, Anton. Friends and Memories, ed. Andrew Wheatcroft. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

  Donaldson, Frances. Freddy Lonsdale. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957.

  Donaldson, Frances. P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1982.

  Donaldson, Norman, and Betty Donaldson. How Did They Die? New York: Greenwich House, 1980.

  Donovan, Hedley. From Roosevelt to Reagan. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

  Draper & Esquin (San Francisco Wine Merchants). Sales brochure. Drennan, Robert E. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Citadel Press, 1968.

  Drennan, Robert E. Wit’s End. London: Leslie Frewin, 1973.

  Dryfoos, Susan W. Iphigene: Memoirs of Iphigene Ochs Sulzburger of the New York Times Family as Told to Her Granddaughter. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.

  Duff, David. Albert and Victoria. London: Muller, 1972.

  Duff, David. Elizabeth of Glamis. London: Muller, 1973.

  Duff, David. Eugénie and Napoleon III. New York: Morrow, 1978.

  Dugas de Bois St. Just, Jean Louis Marie. Paris, Versailles et les provinces au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: H. Nicole, 1811.

  Dunaway, Philip, and George De Kay, eds. Turning Points: Fateful Moments That Revealed Men and Made History. New York: Random House, 1958.

  Dunbar, Janet. J. M. Barrie, The Man Behind the Image. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

  Duncan, David Douglas. Picasso’s Picasso. New York: Harper, 1961.

  Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926.

  Durant, Will, and Ariel Durant. The Story of Civilization. 11 vols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935–65.

  Eastman, Max. Great Companions. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959.

  Eby, Cecil. The Siege of the Alcazar. New York: Random House, 1965.

  Edwards, Kenneth. I Wish I’d Said That: An Anthology of Witty Replies. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1976.

  Edwards, Kenneth. I Wish I’d Said That Too. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1977.

  Edwards, Kenneth. More Things I Wish I’d Said, and Some I Wish I Hadn’t. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1978.

  Eisenhower, David. Eisenhower at War. New York: Random House, 1986.

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends. New York: Doubleday, 1957.

  Elder, Donald. Ring Lardner: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 1956.

  Elliot, John Harold. Berlioz. London: Dent, 1938; reissued 1967.

  Ellis, James J. Spurgeon Anecdotes: Being Authentic Anecdotes. London: J. E. Hawkins, 1892.

  Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959; new and rev. edition, 1982.

  Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Knopf, 1988.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1960, 1961, 1967, 1969, 1971.

  Enright. D. J. The Oxford Book of Death. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

  Erskine, David, ed. Augustus Hervey’s Journal. London: Kimber, 1953.

  Ervine, St. John Greer. Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work and Friends. New York: Morrow, 1956.

  Espy, Willard. An Almanac of Words at Play. New York: C. N. Potter, 1980.

  Evans, Christopher. The Micro Millennium. New York: Washington Square Press, 1979.

  Evans, H. Sutherland. Personal Recollections. Evans, Richard. Nasty: Ilie Nastase vs. Tennis. New York: Stein & Day, 1979.

  Fadiman, Clifton. Any Number Can Play. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1957.

  Fadiman, Clifton. Enter, Conversing. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1962.

  Fadiman, Clifton. Fifty Years. New York: Knopf, 1965.

  Fadiman, Clifton, ed. Testament. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

  Fadiman, Clifton. The Mathematical Magpie. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.

  Fadiman, Clifton. Party of One: The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1955.

  Fadiman, Clifton, and Charles Van Doren. The American Treasury 1455–1955. New York: Harper & Row, 1955.

  Farago, Ladislas. Strictly from Hungary. New York: Walker, 1962.

  Faulkner, Alex, and Tom Hartman. All the Best People … The Pick of Peterborough, 1929–1945. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1981.

  Ferris, Timothy. Coming of Age in the Milky Way. New York: Morrow, 1988.

  Fien, Irving A. Jack Benny: An Intimate Biography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976.

  Fergusson, Bernard. Wavell: Portrait of a Soldier. London: Collins, 1961.

  Fielding, Daphne. Those Remarkable Cunards: Emerald and Nancy. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

  Fifield, William. In Search of Genius. New York: Morrow, 1982.

  Finch, Christopher. The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1973.

  Finck, Henry. Musical Laughs. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1924.

  Fitzgerald, Patrick. Ancient China. Oxford: Elsevier-Phaidon, 1978.

  Fitzgibbon, Theodora, comp. The Pleasures of the Table. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

  Flanner, Janet. Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend, edited and with commentary by Natalia Danesi Murray. New York: Random House, 1985.

  Fleming, Sir Ambrose. Memories of a Scientific Life. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1934.

  Fonteyn, Margot. Margot Fonteyn: An Autobiography. New York: Knopf, 1976.

  Foot, Michael. Aneurin Bevan: A Biography. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

  Forbes, Bryan. Ned’s Girl. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.

  Forbes, Elliot, ed. Thayer’s Life of Beethoven. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964.

  Ford, Corey. The Time of Laughter. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

  Ford, Ford Madox. Ancient Lights (1911). Fordin, Hugh. Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II. New York: Random House, 1967.

  Forkner, Ben. Modern Irish Short Stories. Preface by Anthony Burgess. New York: Penguin, 1980.

  Fowler, Gene. Beau James: The Life and Times of Jimmy Walker. New York: Viking, 1949.

  Fowler, Gene. Good Night, Sweet Prince. New York: Viking, 1944.

  Fowler, Gene. Minutes of the Last Meeting. New York: Viking, 1954.

  Fowler, Gene. Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante. New York: Viking, 1951.

  Fowler, Gene. Timber Line: A Story of Bonfils and Fammen. Garden City, N.Y.: Halcyon House, 1933.

  Foxe, John. Acts and Monuments, ed. H. M. Seymour. New York: 1855.

  François,
Jacob. The Possible and the Actual. New York: Pantheon, 1982.

  Frank, Philipp. Einstein: His Life and Times. New York: Knopf, 1947.

  Franqui, Carlos. Family Portrait with Fidel, trans. Alfred MacAdam. New York: Random House, 1983.

  Fraser, Antonia. Cromwell, The Lord Protector. New York: Knopf, 1973.

  Fraser, Sir William. Disraeli and His Day. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1891.

  Frederick, Pauline. Ten First Ladies of the World. New York: Meredith, 1967.

  Freud, Sigmund. Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1916). Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.

  Frith, William Powell. My Autobiography and Reminiscences. New York: Harper, 1888.

  Frommer, Myrna Katz, and Harvey Frommer. It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.

  Frost, David. Best of the World’s Worst Decisions. New York: Crown, 1983.

  Frost, David. “I Gave Them a Sword”: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews. New York: Morrow, 1978.

  Frost, David, and Michael Deakin. David Frost’s Book of Millionaires, Multimillionaires, and Really Rich People. New York: Crown, 1984.

  Fuess, Claude Moore. Daniel Webster. Boston: Little, Brown, 1930.

  Fuller, Edmund. 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions. New York: Crown, 1943.

  Fuller, Thomas. Fuller’s The Holy State and the Profane State, ed. Maximilian Graff Walten. New York: Columbia University Press, 1938.

  Fuller, Thomas, ed. The Worthies of England, intro. and notes by John Freeman. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1952.

  Furnas, J. C. Fanny Kemble: Leading Lady of the Nineteenth-Century Stage. New York: Dial, 1982.

  Fussell, Betty. I Hear America Cooking. New York: Viking, 1986.

  Gaines, James R., ed. The Lives of the Piano. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981.

  Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Life in Our Times. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

  Garland, H. Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898.

  Garland, Joseph. Boston’s Gold Coast. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

  Garland, Madge. The Changing Face of Childhood. New York: October House, 1965.

  Gates, W. Francis. Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Famous Composers and Performers. Philadelphia: T. Presser, 1898.

  Gattey, Charles Neilson. The Elephant That Swallowed a Nightingale and Other Operatic Wonders. London: Hutchinson, 1981.