Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Levi, Peter. The Hill of Kronos. New York: Dutton, 1981.

  Lewis, Arthur H. Those Philadelphia Kellys, with a Touch of Grace. New York: Morrow, 1977.

  Lewis, Robert. Slings and Arrows: Theatre in My Life. New York: Stein & Day, 1984.

  Lewis, Robert. W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes. New York: New American Library, 1967.

  Liddell Hart, B. A. Reputations, Ten Years After. Boston: Little, Brown, 1928.

  Lieberman, Gerald F. The Greatest Laughs of All Time. New York: Doubleday, 1961.

  Lincoln, Anthony L. J., and Robert Lindley McEwan, eds. Lord Eldon’s Anecdote Book. London: Stevens & Sons, 1960.

  Linkletter, Art. I Wish I’d Said That! My Favorite Ad-libs of All Time. New York: Doubleday, 1968.

  Livy (Titus Livius). Annals of the Roman People. Lloyd, Chris Evert. Chrissie: My Own Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

  Lo Bello, Nino. European Detours: A Travel Guide to Unusual Sites. Maplewood, N.J.: Hammond, 1981.

  Lockhart, John Gibson. Life of Sir Walter Scott. New York: Dutton, 1906.

  Lockhart, John Gilbert. Cecil Rhodes. New York: Macmillan, 1933.

  Loliée, Frédéric Auguste. Gilded Beauties of the Second Empire, adapted by Bryan O’Donnell. New York: Brentano’s, 1910.

  Longford, Elizabeth, ed. The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

  Longford, Elizabeth. The Queen: The Life of Elizabeth II. New York: Knopf, 1983.

  Love, Robertus. The Rise and Fall of Jesse James. New York: Putnam, 1926.

  Lowenfels, Walter. The Paris Years. Lucas, Edward Verall. A Fronded Isle, and Other Essays. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928.

  Lucas, Edward Verall. Reading, Writing and Remembering: A Literary Record. New York: Harper & Bros., 1932.

  Lucie-Smith, Edward, ed. The Faber Book of Art Anecdotes. London: Faber & Faber. Lysons, Daniel. Environs of London. London: Cadell, 1795–1811.

  Maas, Henry, ed. The Letters of A. E. Housman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.

  McAleer, John. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

  McAlmon, Robert. Being Geniuses Together, 1920–1930.

  New York: Doubleday, 1968.

  McBride, Joseph. High and Inside: An A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1997.

  McCann, Sean. The Wit of the Irish. London: Frewin, 1968.

  McCarthy, Joe. Days and Nights at Costello’s. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

  McClure, Alexander Kelly. Lincoln’s Own Yarns and Stories. Philadelphia: Winston, 1900.

  McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

  McCullough, David Willis, ed. American Childhoods. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

  MacCunn, J. Recollections of W. P. Ker by Two Friends. MacDonald, Malcolm. Titans and Others. London: Collins, 1972.

  McMullen, Roy. Degas: His Life, Times, and Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

  MacNeice, Louis. The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Biography, ed. E. R. Dodds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

  McPhee, Nancy. The Book of Insults. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978.

  McPhee, Nancy. The Second Book of Insults. New York: Penguin, 1983.

  Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius. Saturnalia.

  Madigan, Carol Orsag, and Ann Elwood. Brainstorms and Thunderbolts: How Creative Genius Worked. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

  Mahony, Patrick. Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor. New York: Citadel Press, 1956.

  Maltby, William. Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers. To Which Is Added Porsoniana. New York: Appleton, 1856.

  Manchester, William. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone: 1932–1940. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.

  Manchester, William. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory: 1874–1932. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.

  Manchester, William. One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.

  Manningham, John. Diary Mansfield, Irving. Life with Jackie. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.

  Margolius, Hans. Der lächelnde Philosoph. Munich: Bechtle Verlag, 1963.

  Markham, Felix. The Bonapartes. New York: Taplinger, 1975.

  Marquand, Ralph L. Jokes and Anecdotes for All Occasions. New York: Hart Publishing, 1977.

  Marsh, Edward. A Number of People. New York: Harper & Bros., 1939.

  Martin, Ralph. A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

  Martin, Robert Bernard. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. London: Oxford University Press, 1980.

  Marx, Harpo. Harpo Speaks! New York: Geis Associates, 1961.

  Marx, Samuel. Mayer and Thalberg: The Make-Believe Saints. New York: Random House, 1975.

  Marx, Samuel, and Jan Clayton. Rodgers and Hart, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bedeviled: An Anecdotal Account. New York: Putnam, 1976.

  Massey, Raymond. A Hundred Different Lives: An Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

  Massie, Robert K. Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War. New York: Random House, 1991.

  Massie Robert K. Peter the Great: His Life and World. New York: Knopf, 1980.

  Masson, Thomas L. The Best Stories in the World. New York: Doubleday, 1913.

  Maugham, W. Somerset. A Writer’s Notebook. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1949.

  May, Antoinette. Different Drummers: They Did What They Wanted. Millbrae, Calif.: Les Femmes, 1976.

  Mayfield, Sara. The Constant Circle: H. L. Mencken and His Friends. New York: Dell, 1969.

  Meigs, Cornelia Lynde. Invincible Louisa. Boston: Little, Brown, 1933.

  Mellow, James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company. New York: Praeger, 1974.

  Méras, Phyllis. The Mermaids of Chenonceaux. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983.

  Merrill, Robert. Between Acts: An Irreverent Look at Opera and Other Madness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

  Merwin, W. S., trans. Products of the Perfected Civilization: Selected Writings of Chamfort, New York: Macmillan, 1969.

  Mignet, François. Notices historiques 2nd ed. Paris: Paulin, L’Hereux et cie, 1853.

  Mikes, George. Coffee Houses of Europe. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1983.

  Mikes, George. Laughing Matter: Towards a Personal Philosophy of Wit and Humor. New York: Library Press, 1971.

  Mills, John. Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields. 1981.

  Milne, Alan Alexander, It’s Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer. London: Methuen, 1939.

  Milne, Christopher. The Enchanted Places. New York: Dutton, 1975.

  Milton, Joyce. Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

  Missen, Leslie Robert. Quotable Anecdotes. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966.

  Mitford, Nancy. Voltaire in Love. New York: Harper & Row, 1957.

  Mitterand, François. The Wheat and the Chaff. New York: Seaver Books/Lattès, 1982.

  Monegal, Emir R., and Alastair Reid. Borges, a Reader: A Selection from the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Dutton, 1981.

  Monk, Ray. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.

  Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Royal Palaces of Europe. New York: Vendome, 1983.

  Moore, Frank. Anecdotes, Poetry and Incidents of the War: North and South, 1860–1865. New York: Arundel, 1882.

  Moore, Ruth. Charles Darwin: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Knopf, 1973.

  Moore, Thomas. Memoir of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1925.

  Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, ed. By the Right Honorable Lord John Russell, MP. Boston: Little, Brown, 1853.

  Moorehead, Alan. Darwin and The Beagle. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

  Moorhouse, Geoffrey. The Diplomats. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities, 1977.


  Mordden, Ethan. Opera Anecdotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  Morgan, Ted. FDR: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

  Morley, Robert. A Musing Morley: The Selected Writings of Robert Morley, ed. Sheridan Morley. London: Robson Books, 1974.

  Morley, Robert. Pardon Me, But You’re Eating My Doily. New York: Saint Martin’s, 1983.

  Morley, Robert. Robert Morley’s Book of Bricks. New York: Putnam, 1978.

  Morley Robert. A Second Book of Bricks. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.

  Morley, Robert, and Sewell Stokes. Robert Morley: A Reluctant Autobiography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967.

  Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noel Coward. New York: Doubleday, 1969.

  Morley, Sheridan. Tales from the Hollywood Raj: The British, the Movies, and Tinseltown. New York: Viking, 1984.

  Morton, Brian N. Americans in Paris. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Olivia & Hill, 1984.

  Morton, H. V. A Traveller in Italy. Morris, James. Oxford. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.

  Morris, Jan. Destinations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

  Morris, Jan. The Oxford Book of Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

  Moss, Howard. Whatever Is Moving. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

  Muir, Frank. An Irreverent and Thoroughly Incomplete Social History of Almost Everything. New York: Stein & Day, 1976.

  Murchie, Guy. Music of the Spheres. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

  Murray, William. Italy: The Fatal Gift. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982.

  Nabokov, Vladimir. Strong Opinions. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

  Nash, Jay Robert. The Innovators: 16 Portraits of the Famous and Infamous. Chicago: Regnery/Gateway, 1982.

  Nash, Jay Robert. Zanies: The World’s Greatest Eccentrics. Piscataway, N.J.: New Century, 1982.

  Nelson, Randy, F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, Calif.: William Kaufmann, 1981.

  New Columbia Encyclopedia, The. William H. Harris and Judith S. Levey, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.

  Nichols, Beverley. The Sweet Twenties. New York: British Book Centre, 1958.

  Nicolson, Harold. Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters. New York: Atheneum, 1967.

  Nikolaev, Vsevold A., and Albert Parry. The Loves of Catherine the Great. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982.

  Niven, David. Bring On the Empty Horses. New York: Putnam, 1975.

  Nixon, Richard. Leaders. New York: Warner Books, 1981.

  Noakes, Vivien. Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.

  Norton, Lucy, ed., trans. Saint-Simon at Versailles. New York: Harmony Books, 1980.

  Novak, William, and Moshe Waldoks. Big Book of Jewish Humor. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

  Noyes, Alfred. Two Worlds for Memory. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1953.

  O’Brien, Pat. Talkin’ Sports: A.B.S.-er’s Guide. New York: Villard, 1998.

  O’Connell, Charles. The Other Side of the Record. New York: Knopf, 1947.

  O’Donnell, Kenneth, and David F. Powers. “Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye.” Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.

  O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Other People’s Myths. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

  Okrent, Dan, with Steve Wulf. Baseball Anecdotes. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

  Orgel, Joseph R. Undying Passion. New York: Morrow, 1985.

  Oursler, Fulton. Behold This Dreamer. New York: Macaulay, 1924.

  Oxfam. Pass the Port. Cirencester, England: Christian Brann, 1976.

  Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 2nd ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1953.

  Paar, Jack. P.S. Jack Paar: An Entertainment. New York: Doubleday, 1982.

  Paine, Albert Bigelow. The Adventures of Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Bros., 1916.

  Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912.

  Painter, George D. Proust: The Early Years. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

  Painter, George D. Proust: The Later Years. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

  Pais, Abraham. “Subtle Is the Lord. . .”: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

  Paléologue, Maurice. The Enigmatic Czar: The Life of Alexander I of Russia, trans. Edwin and Willa Muir. New York: Harper & Bros., 1938.

  Paley, F. A. Greek Wit: A Collection of Smart Sayings and Anecdotes. London: George Bell & Sons, 1881.

  Palmer, George Herbert. The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908.

  Papesch, Joseph Friedrich. Europa Lächelt Noch Immer. Graz: Laykam-Verlag, 1952.

  Parkinson, Norman. Fifty Years of Style and Fashion. New York: Vendome, 1983.

  Parmelin, Hélène. Picasso Says, trans. C. Trollope. South Brunswick, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, 1969.

  Payn, Graham, and Sheridan Morley. Noël Coward Diaries. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

  Pearson, Hesketh. Johnson and Boswell. New York: Harper & Row, 1958.

  Pearson, Hesketh. The Life of Oscar Wilde (1947). Rpt., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1978.

  Pearson, Hesketh. Lives of the Wits. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

  Pearson, Hesketh. The Man Whistler. New York: Harper & Row, 1952.

  Pearson, Hesketh. The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit and Humor of Sydney Smith. New York: Harper & Row, 1934.

  Pearson, John. The Serpent and the Stag. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984.

  Pedrazzini, Marie-Charlotte, and Jeannette Gris. Autant en apportent les mots. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1969.

  Penrose, Roland. Picasso: His Life and Work. New York: Harper & Row, 1959.

  Penrose, Roland, Roland Penrose Scrapbook. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.

  Pepys, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. R. Latham and W. Matthews. London: Bell & Hyman, 1983.

  Percy, Sholto, and Reuben Percy. The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Selected. New York: W. B. Gilley, 1821.

  Perrett, Geoffrey. America in the Twenties: A History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

  Peters, Margot. Mrs. Pat: The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. New York: Knopf, 1984.

  Phillips, Peter. A Brief Chronicle. Pijet, Georg W. Duell mit der Vergangenheit. Halle (Saale): Mittel Deutscher Verlag, 1976.

  Piper, David. Painting in England 1500–1870. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.

  Plato. Phaedo, ed. David Gallop, London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

  Plato. Theaetetus and Sophist, trans. Harold North Fowler. New York: Putnam, 1928.

  Pleasants, Henry. The Great American Popular Singers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

  Pliny (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus). Letters, trans. William Melmoth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1940.

  Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives, trans. B. Perrin. London: Heinemann, 1914–1926.

  Poley, Irvin, and Ruth Poley. Friendly Anecdotes. New York: Harper & Bros. 1950.

  Poliziano, Angelo. Diario odeporico-bibliografico inedito del Poliziano: c memoria del Giovanni Pesenti. Milan: U Hoepli, 1916.

  Porzelt, Paul. The Metropolitan Club of New York. New York: Rizzoli, 1982.

  Postgate, Raymond. That Devil Wilkes. New York: Vanguard, 1929.

  Powell, Anthony. The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Vol. 3: Faces in My Time. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976.

  Powell, Anthony. The Memoirs of Anthony Powell Vol. 4: The Strangers Are All Gone. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982.

  Preminger, Erik Lee. Gypsy and Me: At Home and on the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

  Prescott, Orville. Princess of the Renaissance. New York: Random House, 1969.

  Previn, André, ed. Orchestra. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

  Price, R. G. G. A History of Punch. London: Oxford University Press, 1984.

  Priestly, Joseph. Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestly to the Year 1795.

  Rpt., Bath: Adams & Dart, 1978.

  Prior, Sir James. L
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  Pritchett, V. S. Balzac. New York: Knopf, 1973.

  Pritchett, V. S. The Myth Makers: Literary Essays. New York: Random House, 1979.

  Prochnow, Herbert V. The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest. New York: Harper & Bros., 1942.

  Prochnow, Herbert V. Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook. New York: Prima Publishing, 1993.

  Procopius. Secret History. Rpt., Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1961.

  Pye, M. The King over the Water. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981.

  Quennell, Peter, Samuel Johnson: His Friends and Enemies. New York: American Heritage Press, 1972.

  Quennell, Peter. The Sign of the Fish. New York: Viking, 1960.

  Rachlis, Eugene, and John E. Marquese. The Landlords. New York: Random House, 1963.

  Radecki, Sigismund von. Das ABC des Lachens: Ein Anekdotenbuch zur Unterhaltung und Belehrung. Hamburg: Rowolt, 1953.

  Rainie, Harrison, and John Quinn. Growing Up a Kennedy: The Third Wave Comes of Age. New York: Putnam, 1983.

  Rajanen, Aini. Of Finnish Ways. Minneapolis: Dillon, 1981.

  Rawson, Hugh. A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk. New York: Crown Publishers, 1981.

  Raymond, G. Memoirs of Robert William Elliston. New York: B. Blom, 1969.

  Read, John. Humour and Humanism in Chemistry. London: G. Bell, 1947.

  Reagan, R. The Uncommon Wisdom of Ronald Reagan: A Portrait in His Own Words, ed. Bill Adler. New York: Little, Brown, 1996.

  Rees, Nigel. Quote … Unquote. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1978.

  Reiman, Donald H., ed. Shelley and His Circle, vols. VII, VIII. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.

  Rémusat, Claire Elizabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, Comtesse de. Mémoires de Madam de Rémusat. Paris: C. Levy, 1880.

  Richard, Ivor. We, the British. New York: Doubleday, 1983.

  Richler, Mordecai, ed. Writers and World War II: An Anthology. New York: Knopf, 1991.

  Ridley, Jasper. Lord Palmerston. New York: Dutton, 1971.

  Ringo, Miriam. Nobody Said It Better. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1980.

  Riordan, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. New York: Dutton, 1969.

  Robards, Terry. The New York Times Book of Wine. New York: Quadrangle, 1976.

  Roberts, Cecil. And So to Bath. New York: Macmillan, 1940.