Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Gay, Peter. Freud: A Life for Our Time. New York: Norton, 1988.

  George, Daniel, ed. A Book of Anecdotes: Illustrating Varieties of Experience in the Lives of the Eminent and the Lives of the Obscure. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1958.

  Georges-Michel, Michel. From Renoir to Picasso: Artists in Action, trans. Dorothy and Randolph Weaver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

  Gere, J. A., and John Sparrow. Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks: A Selection. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

  Gerin, W. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

  Germond, J. Blue Smoke and Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980. New York: Viking, 1991.

  Gerwig, Henrietta. Fifty Famous Painters. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1926.

  Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 3rd ed. London: W. S. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1777. Rpt., New York: Modern Library, 1983.

  Gilbert, Michael. The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

  Gilchrist, Alexander. The Life of William Blake. New York: Dodd, Mead, [1906?]. Gill, Brendan. Here at the New Yorker. New York: Random House, 1975.

  Gill, Dominic, ed. The Book of the Piano. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981.

  Gilot, Françoise, and Carlton Lake. Life with Picasso. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

  Gipe, George. The Last Time When. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Assn., 1980.

  Gleick, James. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

  Godden, Rumer. Hans Christian Andersen: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Knopf, 1954.

  Gogarty, Oliver St. John. It Isn’t This Time of Year at All! An Unpremeditated Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1954.

  Gogol, Nikolai V. Chichikov’s Journeys: Home Life in Old Russia, trans. Bernard Guilbert Guerney. New York: The Reader’s Club, 1942.

  Goncourt, Edmond de. Journal des Goncourt: Mémoires de la vie littéraire. Paris: E. Fasguelle, 1891–1907.

  Goossens, Eugene. Overture and Beginners: A Musical Autobiography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972.

  Gordon, Max, with Lewis Funke. Max Gordon Presents. New York: Geis, 1963.

  Gottfried, Martin, Jed Harris: The Curse of Genius. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

  Graham, Sheila. The Garden of Allah. New York: Crown, 1970.

  Grant, Michael. Readings in the Classical Historians. New York: Scribner, 1992.

  Graves, Robert. Goodbye to All That. New ed., rev. New York: Doubleday, 1957.

  Graves, R. P. A. E. Housman: The Scholar Poet. New York: Scribner, 1980.

  Green, Benny, comp. London. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

  Green, Horace. General Grant’s Last Stand. New York: Scribner, 1936.

  Green, Jonathan. Morrow’s International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations. New York: Morrow, 1982.

  Green, Lee. Sportswit. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

  Green, Robert Lancelyn. C. S. Lewis: A Biography. New York: H. Z. Walck, 1963.

  Green, Robert Lancelyn, ed. The Diaries of Lewis Carroll. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.

  Greenfield, Howard. Caruso. New York: Putnam, 1983.

  Griffin, Jasper, ed. Snobs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

  Griffin, Merv, with Peter Barsocchini. From Where I Sit: Merv Griffin’s Book of People. New York: Arbor, 1982.

  Gruen, John. Menotti: a Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1978.

  Gruen, John. The Party’s Over Now: Reminiscences of the Fifties — New York’s Artists, Writers, Musicians, and Their Friends. New York: Viking, 1972.

  Grun, Bernard. Gold and Silver: The Life and Times of Franz Lehár. New York: D. McKay Co., 1970.

  Guedalla, Philip. Supers and Supermen: Studies in Politics, History and Letters. New York: Knopf, 1921.

  Guérard, E. Dictionnaire Encyclopédique d’anecdotes modernes, anciennes, françaises et étrangères par Edmond Guérard. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1879.

  Guillois, Mina, and André Guillois. Liberté, Egailité, Hilarité. Paris: Fayard, 1972.

  Guinness, Alec. Blessings in Disguise. Knopf, 1986.

  Guinness, Jonathan, with Catherine Guinness. House of Mitford. New York: Viking, 1985.

  Gunther, John. Inside Russia Today. New York: Harper, 1958.

  Gunther, John. Inside South America. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

  Gunther, John, Procession. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

  Hadleigh, Boze. Hollywood Babble On: Stars Gossip About Other Stars. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1994.

  Hagedorn, Herman. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921.

  Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Villard, 1993.

  Halberstam, David. The Next Century. New York: Morrow, 1990.

  Halberstam, David. The Reckoning. New York: Morrow, 1986.

  Hall, Donald, ed. The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

  Hall, Donald. Remembering Poets. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

  Halle, Kay. Randolph Churchill, The Young Unpretender: Essays by His Friends. London: Heinemann, 1971.

  Hamburger, Michael, ed. Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations. New York: Pantheon, 1952.

  Hamilton, Ian. Koestler: A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

  Hamilton, Ian. Robert Lowell: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1982.

  Hamilton, Nigel. JFK: Reckless Youth. New York: Random House, 1992.

  Hammond, John Winthrop. Men and Volts: The Story of General Electric. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941.

  Hancock, W. K. Smuts. London: Cambridge University Press, 1962–1968.

  Hardy, Alan. Queen Victoria Was Amused. New York: Taplinger, 1977.

  Hardy, G. H. A Mathematician’s Apology. London: Cambridge University Press.1940.

  Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert. The Story of My Life. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1896.

  Harris, Leon A. The Fine Art of Political Wit. New York: Dutton, 1966.

  Harris, Sydney J. Pieces of Eight. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

  Harrison, Ada, and Derek Stanford. Anne Brontë: Her Life and Work. New York: John Day, 1959.

  Hart, Moss. Act One: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1959.

  Harvey, Paul. ed. Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

  Harvey, Peter. Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster. Boston: Little, Brown, 1887.

  Hassall, Christopher Vernon. Biography of Edward Marsh. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959.

  Hastings, Michael. Sir Richard Burton: A Biography. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978.

  Hatch, Alden. The Byrds of Virginia. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969.

  Hatch, Alden. The Mountbattens: The Last Royal Success Story. New York: Random House, 1965.

  Hauser, Ernest O. Italy, A Cultural Guide. Atheneum, 1981.

  Hauser, Thomas. Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. New York: Touchstone, 1991.

  Hawthorne, Julian. Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1884.

  Hay, Peter. Movie Anecdotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  Heath, Sir Thomas. A History of Greek Mathematics. New York: Dover Books, 1981.

  Hecht, Ben. A Child of the Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954.

  Heine, Heinrich. Confessions, trans. Peter Heinegg. Malibu, Calif.: J. Simon, 1981.

  Hellman, Lillian. Pentimento. Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.

  Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York: Scribner, 1964.

  Hendrickson, Robert. The Literary Life and Other Curiosities. New York: Viking, 1981.

  Henry, O. The Voice of the City and Other Stories. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935.

  Henry of Huntingdon. Historia Anglorum. Herbert, Alan Patrick. A.P.H.: His Life and Times. London: Heinemann, 1978.

  Herman, Gary. The Book of Hollywood Quotes. New York: Omn
ibus, 1979.

  Herodotus. History, trans. H. Carter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.

  Herold, J. Christopher. Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.

  Herrmann, Dorothy. With Malice Toward All. New York: Putnam, 1982.

  Hersey, John. Antonietta. New York: Knopf, 1991.

  Hession, Charles H. John Maynard Keynes. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

  Hibbert, Christopher. The Personal History of Samuel Johnson. London: Longman Group, Ltd., 1971.

  Hill, Christopher. God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. New York: Dial, 1970.

  Hillary, Edmund. High Adventure. New York: Dutton, 1955.

  Hobson, Laura Z. Laura Z: A Life. New York: Arbor House, 1983.

  Hoffmeister, Herbert. Anekdotenschatz, von der antike bis auf unsere Tage. Berlin: Verlag Praktisches Wissen, 1957.

  Hofman, P. Rome — The Sweet, Tempestuous Life. New York: Congdon & Lattès, 1982.

  Holbrook, Stewart H. The Age of the Moguls. New York: Doubleday, 1953.

  Holland, Vyvyan.Time Remembered After Père Lachaise. London: Gollancz, 1966.

  Holmes, Charles S. The Clocks of Columbus: The Literary Career of James Thurber. New York: Atheneum, 1972.

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884.

  Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.

  Hood, Paxton. World of Anecdote. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1874.

  Hopkins, Anthony. Music All Around Me: A Personal Choice from the Literature of Music. London: Frewin, 1967.

  Horgan, Paul. Approaches to Writing. 2nd ed. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.

  Horgan, Paul. Encounters with Stravinsky. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972.

  Hotchner, A. E. Choice People: The Greats, Near-Greats, and Ingrates I Have Known. New York: Morrow, 1984.

  Hough, Richard. Edward and Alexandra: Their Private and Public Lives. Howard, Jane. Margaret Mead: A Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

  Howard, Margo. Eppie: The Story of Ann Landers. New York: Putnam, 1982.

  Howe, Mark A. DeWolfe. Holmes of the Breakfast Table. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.

  Howe, Mark A. DeWolfe. John Jay Chapman and His Letters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937.

  Howells, William Dean. My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910.

  Huddleston, Sisley. Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928.

  Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos. Picasso: Creator and Destroyer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

  Humes, James C. Speakers’ Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

  Humphrey, Laning. The Humor of Music and Other Oddities in the Art. Boston: Crescendo, 1971.

  Innes, Michael. The Gay Phoenix. New York: Penguin, 1981.

  Isaacs, Alan, and Elizabeth Martin. Dictionary of Music. New York: Hamlyn, 1982.

  Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger in America: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

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

  James, Robert Rhodes, ed. Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon. New York: Penguin, 1970.

  Jasen, David A. P. G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master. New York: Mason & Lipscomb, 1974.

  Jeffs, Rae. Brendan Behan, Man and Showman. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1968.

  Jelusisch, Mirko. Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald. Vienna: Tieck Verlag, 1937.

  Jennison, Keith W. The Humorous Mr. Lincoln. New York: Crowell, 1965.

  Jerome, Jerome A. My Life and Times. London: J. Murray, 1983.

  Jesse, John Heneage. George Selwyn and His Contemporaries. Boston: C. F. Rice, 1843.

  Johnson, Diane. Dashiell Hammett. New York: Random House, 1983.

  Johnson, Doris, and Ellen Leventhal, eds. The Letters of Nunnally Johnson. New York: Knopf, 1981.

  Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952.

  Johnson, H. Earle. Symphony Hall. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

  Johnson, Nora. Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

  Johnson, Paul. The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815–1830. New York: Harper-Collins, 1991.

  Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets, ed. John Wain. New York: Dutton, 1975.

  Johnson, Wendell Stacy. W. H. Auden. New York: Continuum, 1990.

  Johnston, Brian. Rain Stops Play. London: W. H. Allen, 1979.

  Jones, Charlie. What Makes Winners Win. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.

  Jones, Evan. A Food Lover’s Companion. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

  Jones, Neal T. A Book of Days for the Literary Year. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984.

  Jonson, Ben. Timber; or Discoveries, ed. G. B. Harrison. New York: Dutton, 1966.

  Kac, Mark. Enigmas of Chance. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

  Kael, Pauline. The Citizen Kane Book. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.

  Kanin, Garson. Hollywood. New York: Viking, 1974.

  Kaplan, Justin. Mark Twain and His World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

  Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966.

  Karsh, Yousuf. Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective. Boston: NYGS/Little, Brown, 1983.

  Keddie, William. Cyclopedia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrative of the Characters, Habits, and Conversation of Men of Letters and Science. London: Columbus, Follett, Foster, 1859. Rpt., Ann Arbor, Mich: Gryphon Books, 1971.

  Keegan, John. The Masks of Command. New York: Viking, 1987.

  Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th–August 25th, 1944. New York: Viking, 1982.

  Kelen, Betty. The Mistresses. New York: Random House, 1966.

  Kelen, Emery. Peace in Their Time: Men Who Led Us In and Out of War, 1914–1945. New York: Knopf, 1963.

  Kelley, Kitty. Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.

  Kendall, Alan. The Tender Tyrant, Nadia Boulanger: A Life Devoted to Music: A Biography. London: MacDonald & Janes, 1976.

  Kenin, Richard, and Justin Winkle. Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects. New York: Knopf, 1978.

  Kenyon, John Phillips. A Dictionary of British History. New York: Stein & Day, 1983.

  Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham. Horace Walpole. New York: Longman’s, 1864.

  Keynes, Geoffrey, and Brian Hill, eds. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks — Selections. New York: Dutton, 1951.

  Kidder, Jonathan Edward. Ancient Japan. New York: John Day, 1965.

  Kiernan, V. G. Tobacco: A History. King, Alan, and Mimi Sheraton. Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex? Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.

  Kissinger, Henry. White House Years. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

  Knox, D. B. More Quotable Anecdotes. London: T. F. Unwin, 1926.

  Knox, D. B. Quotable Anecdotes for Various Occasions. New York: Dutton, 1924.

  Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott. Literary Distractions. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1958.

  Kobler, John. Capone. New York: Putnam, 1971.

  Koestler, Arthur. Bricks to Babel. New York: Random House, 1980.

  Korda, Michael. Another Life. New York: Random House, 1999.

  Korda, Michael. Charmed Lives: A Family Romance. New York: Random House, 1979.

  Krantz, Judith. Mistral’s Daughter. New York: Crown, 1983.

  Krementz, Jill. The Writer’s Image. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980.

  Krock, Arthur. Memoirs. New York: Popular Library, 1968.

  Kupferberg, Herbert. Those Fabulous Philadelphians: The Life and Times of a Great Orchestra. New York: Scribner, 1969.

  Lacey, Robert. The Aristocrats. London: Hutchinson, 1983.

  Lacey, Robert. The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa‘ud. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 198
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  Lacey, Robert. Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

  Lamparksi, Richard. Whatever Became of… ? New York: Crown, 1966.

  Landon, H. C. Robbins. Handel and His World: A Documentary Biography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

  Lane, Margaret. Purely for Pleasure. New York: Knopf, 1967.

  Lang, George. The Cuisine of Hungary. New York: Atheneum, 1971.

  Lang, George. Nobody Know the Truffles I’ve Seen. New York: Knopf, 1998.

  Lanman, Charles. The Private Life of Daniel Webster. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852.

  Lanoux, Armand. Paris in the Twenties. New York: Arts, Inc., 1960.

  Larousse, Pierre. Grand dictionnaire universel du 19ième siècle. Paris: Union Générale d’Editions, 1975.

  Larwood, J. Anecdotes of the Clergy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881.

  Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor: An Appreciation. New York: Norton, 1984.

  Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship. New York: Norton, 1971.

  Lasky, Jesse L., and Pat Silver. Love Scene. New York: Berkley, 1981.

  Latham, Aaron. Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood. New York: Viking, 1971.

  Latham, Peter. Brahms. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1949.

  Lawson, Andrew. Discover Unexpected London. Oxford: Elsevier-Phaidon, 1977.

  Lebrecht, Norman. The Book of Musical Anecdotes. New York: The Free Press, 1985.

  Le Gallienne, Richard. The Romantic ’90s. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1925.

  Legouis, Pierre, ed. André Marvell, Poète, Puritain, Patriote, 1621–1678. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.

  Leider, Emily Wortis. Becoming Mae West. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.

  Lender, Mark Edward, and James Kirby Martin. Drinking in America: A History. New York: The Free Press, 1982.

  Lennon, Nigey. Alfred Jarry: The Man with the Axe. Los Angeles: Panjandrum, 1984.

  Leshan, Lawrence. From Newton to ESP. Turnstone Press, Ltd. Leslie, Anita. The Remarkable Mr. Jerome. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1954.

  Le Sueur, Gordon. Cecil Rhodes: The Man and His Work; By One of His Private and Confidential Secretaries, Gordon le Sueur. New York: McBride, Nast, 1914.

  Levant, Oscar. A Smattering of Ignorance. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940.

  Levant, Oscar. The Unimportance of Being Oscar. New York: Putnam, 1968.