Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

Robertson, David. George Mallory. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.

  Rodzinski, Halina. Our Two Lives. New York: Scribner, 1976.

  Rogers, Samuel. Table Talk.

  Rollins, Hyder E., ed. The Keats Circle: Letters and Papers 1816–78. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.

  Roosevelt, Theodore. An Autobiography. New York: Macmillan, 1914.

  Roper, William. The Life of Sir Thomas More. Rpt., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.

  Rorem, Ned. The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983.

  Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse. Reality and Scientific Truth: Discussions with Einstein, von Laue and Others, ed. Thomas Braun. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980.

  Rose, Kenneth. King George V. New York: Knopf, 1984.

  Rosen, Michael, ed. Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

  Rosner, Joseph. A Hater’s Handbook. New York: Delacorte, 1965.

  Ross, Ishbel. Charmers and Cranks. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

  Rosten, Leo. The Joys of Yiddish. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

  Rosten, Leo. People I Have Loved, Known or Admired. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.

  Roy, James Charles. Islands of Storm. Chester Springs, Pa.: Dufour Editions, Inc., 1991.

  Rubinstein, Arthur. My Many Years. New York: Knopf, 1980.

  Runciman, S. The Fall of Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

  Ruskin, John. Deucalion: King of the Golden River and The Eagle’s Nest. Boston: Dana Estes, 1865.

  Russell, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

  Russell, John. Paris. New York: Viking, 1960.

  Russell, Leonard. English Wits. Port Washington: Kennikat Press (first pub. 1940).

  Saarinen, Aline B. The Proud Possessors. New York: Random House, 1958.

  Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, in 20 Volumes. Washington, D.C.: Grove’s Dictionaries of Music, 1980.

  Sadleir, Michael, Trollope: A Commentary. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1947.

  Saint-Fois [Germain François Poullain]. Essais sur Paris de Monsieur de Saint-Fois. Paris: Veuve Duchesne, 1776–1777.

  St. John, Robert. They Came from Everywhere: Twelve Who Helped Mold Modern Israel. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962.

  Salter, Elizabeth. Helpmann: The Authorised Biography of Sir Robert Helpmann. New York: Universe, 1978.

  Samuels, Ernest. The Education of Henry Adams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.

  Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939.

  Sanford, John. Winters of That Country. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1984.

  Sargeant, Winthrop. Divas. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.

  Saxton, Martha. Louisa May: A Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.

  Scammel, Michael. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1984.

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Cycles of American History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

  Schlesinger, Marion Cannon. Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

  Scholes, Percy Alfred. ed. Oxford Companion to Music. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

  Scholz, Wilhelm von. Das Buch des Lachens: Schnurren, Schwanke und Anekdoten. Stuttgart: Verlag Deutsche Volksbücher, 1953.

  Schonberg, Harold C. The Great Conductors. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967.

  Schonberg, Harold C. The Great Pianists. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963.

  Schwartzkopf, Elisabeth. On and Off the Record: A Memoir of Walter Legge. New York: Scribner, 1982.

  Schwed, Peter. Turning the Pages: An Insider’s Story of Simon & Schuster 1924–1984. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

  Scott, Walter. Lawrence Sterne. Scott, Sir Walter. The Tales of a Grandfather.

  Seagrave, Sterling. The Soong Dynasty. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.

  Seaman, Barbara. Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann. New York: Morrow, 1987.

  Secrest, Meryle. Kenneth Clark: A Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983.

  Seelig, Carl. Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography. London: Staples, 1956.

  Seitz, Don C. Whistler Stories. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1913.

  Seligman, Vincent. Puccini Among Friends. New York: Macmillan, 1938.

  Seward, William. Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the Last and Two Preceding Centuries. 5th ed. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804.

  Seward, William. Biographiana. New York: Garland, 1970.

  Seymour Smith, Frank. A Treasury of Wit & Wisdom. London: J. Baker, 1966.

  Seymour-Smith, Martin. Robert Graves: His Life and Work. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.

  Shadegg, Stephen. Clare Boothe Luce: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.

  Shaw, George Bernard. Collected Letters. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965.

  Sheed, Wilfrid. Clare Boothe Luce. New York: Dutton, 1982.

  Shenkman, Richard, and Kurt Reiger. One-Night Stands with American History. New York: Morrow, 1980.

  Shlain, Bruce. Baseball Inside Out. New York: Viking, 1992.

  Shriner, Charles A. Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1918.

  Sidey, Hugh. John F. Kennedy, President. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

  Sievers, H. Musica Curiosa. 2nd ed. Tutzing, Germany: Hans Schneider, 1971.

  Sifakis, Carl. Dictionary of Historic Nicknames. New York: Facts on File, 1984.

  Silitch, Clarissa M., ed. Mad and Magnificent Yankees. Dublin, N.H.: Yankee, Inc., 1973.

  Silverman, Al. “The Fragile Pleasure.” Daedalus. Silverman, Al, and Brian Silverman, eds. The Twentieth-Century Treasury of Sports. New York: Viking, 1993.

  Simpson, Eileen. Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1982.

  Simpson, James B. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

  Sinclair, Andrew. Dylan Thomas: No Man More Magical. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975.

  Sitwell, Dame Edith. English Eccentrics. New York: Vanguard Press, 1957.

  Sitwell, Osbert. Laughter in the Next Room. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948.

  Sitwell, Osbert. Noble Essences. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

  Sitwell, Osbert. Tales My Father Taught Me. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

  Sitwell, Sacheverell, Liszt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.

  Skelton, John. John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, ed. John Scattergood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

  Skelton, John. Poems of John Skelton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

  Skinner, Cornelia Otis. Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

  Slonimsky, Nicholas. Lexicon of Musical Invective. New York: Coleman-Ross, 1953.

  Slonimsky, Nicholas. A Thing or Two About Music. New York: Allen, Towne & Heath, 1948.

  Smail, J. L. With Shield and Assegai. Cape Town: H. Timmins, 1969.

  Smith, Chard Powers. Where the Light Falls. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

  Smith, H. Allen. The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler. New York: Morrow, 1977.

  Smith, Jane S. Elsie de Wolfe: A Life in the High Style. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

  Smith, Logan Pearsall. Unforgotten Years. Boston: Little, Brown, 1939.

  Smith, Page. America Enters the World. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

  Smith, Page. The Nation Comes of Age: A People’s History of the Ante-Bellum Years. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

  Smith, Page. A New Age Now Begins: A People’s History of the American Revolution. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

  Smith, Page. The Rise of Industrial America: A People’s History of the Post-Reconstruction Era. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

  Smith, Page. The Shaping of America: A People’s History of the Young Republic. New York: McGraw-Hil
l, 1980.

  Smith, Page. Trial by Fire: A People’s History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

  Smith, Red. To Absent Friends from Red Smith. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

  Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

  Smith, Sydney. A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith by His Daughter, Lady Holland. New York: Harper, 1855.

  Smith, Sir William. Everyman’s Smaller Classical Dictionary, rev. E. H. Blakeney and J. Warrington. New York: Dutton, 1952.

  Smullyan, Raymond. 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.

  Snead, Sam, and Al Stump. The Education of a Golfer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.

  Snead, Sam, with Fran Pirozzolo. The Game I Love. New York: Ballantine, 1997.

  Snow, Charles Percy. Variety of Men. New York: Scribner, 1967.

  Solberg, Carl. Hubert Humphrey: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1984.

  Sommers, Robert T. Golf Anecdotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

  Southey, Robert. Life of Nelson. New York: Eastburn, Kirk; Boston: William Wells, 1813. Rpt., New York: Dutton, 1962.

  Spence, Joseph. Anecdotes, Observations and Characters of Books and Men. London: W. H. Carpenter, 1820. Rpt., Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.

  Spender, Stephen. World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1966.

  Speroni, Charles. Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1964.

  Spoto, Donald. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.

  Spoto, Donald. The Kindness of Strangers: The Biography of Tennessee Williams. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.

  Spoto, Donald. Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

  Stanley, Henry Morton. How I Found Livingstone. New York: Scribner, 1872.

  Stebben, Gregg, and Jim Morris. White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History. Nashville: Cumberland House, 1993.

  Steegmuller, Francis. Cocteau. Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1970.

  Stein, Jean, with George Plimpton. Edie: An American Biography. New York: Knopf, 1982.

  Steinberg, Alfred. The Man from Missouri. New York: Putnam, 1962.

  Steinbert, Hiltrud. Artz und Patient. Steinem, Gloria. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.

  Sternburg, Janet, ed. The Writer on Her Work. New York: Norton, 1992.

  Stevens, Stewart. The Poles. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

  Stinnett, Caskie. “Travels with Marc,” Signature. Stitt, Peter. The World’s Hieroglyphic Beauty: Five American Poets. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press. Stock, Noel. The Life of Ezra Pound. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.

  Stockdale, Percival. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Percival Stockdale. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1809.

  Stone, Irving. They Also Ran. New York: Doubleday, 1966.

  Straus, Dorothea. Under the Canopy. New York: G. Braziller, 1982.

  Strauss, David, and Fred Worth. Hollywood Trivia. New York: Warner, 1981.

  Strauss, Maurice B. Familiar Medical Quotations. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.

  Strong, Theron G. Joseph H. Choate. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1917.

  Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus). The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves. Baltimore: Penguin, 1957.

  Sutherland, John, ed. Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

  Syben, Friedrich, Preussische Anekdoten: nach Memoiren und Biographien erzählt. Berlin: Bernard & Graefe, 1939.

  Sylvester, Albert J. Life with Lloyd George: The Diary of A. J. Sylvester, ed. Colin Cross. London: Macmillan, 1975.

  Sylvester, Robert. Notes of a Guilty Bystander. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1970.

  Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius. Annals, ed. C. D. Fisher. London: Oxford University Press, 1906.

  Talese, Gay. Fame and Obscurity. New York: World Publishing, 1970.

  Taper, Bernard. Balanchine: A Biography. New York: Times Books, 1984.

  Tarbell, Ida M. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900.

  Tate, Allen, ed. T. S. Eliot, The Man and His Work: A Critical Evaluation by Twenty-Six Distinguished Writers. New York: Delacorte Press, 1966.

  Taubman, Howard. The Maestro: The Life of Arturo Toscanini. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951.

  Taubman, Howard. Music on My Beat. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1943.

  Taylor, Alan John Percivale. Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.

  Taylor, Alan John Percivale. English History 1914–1945, Oxford History of England, Vol. 15. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

  Taylor, Bayard. Critical Essays and Literary Notes. New York: Putnam, 1880.

  Taylor, Gordon Rattray. The Great Evolution Mystery. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

  Tebbel, John. The Inheritors: A Study of America’s Great Fortunes and What Happened to Them. New York: Putnam, 1962.

  Teichmann, Howard. Smart Aleck: The Wit, World and Life of Alexander Woollcott. New York: Morrow, 1976.

  Temianka, Henri. Facing the Music: An Irreverent Close-Up of the Real Concert World. New York: D. McKay, 1973.

  Terkel, Studs. “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

  Tharp, Louise Hall. Mrs. Jack. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

  Tharp, Louise Hall. The Peabody Sisters of Salem. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

  Theroux, Paul. Riding the Iron Rooster. New York: Putnam, 1988.

  Thomas, Bob. King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry Cohn. New York: Putnam, 1967.

  Thomas, Bob. Thalberg: Life and Legend. New York: Doubleday, 1969.

  Thomas, Henry, and Dana Lee Thomas. Living Adventures in Science. Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, 1954.

  Thomas, Henry, and Dana Lee Thomas. Living Biographies of Famous Rulers. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1940.

  Thomas, Henry, and Dana Lee Thomas. Living Biographies of Famous Women. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1942.

  Thomas, Henry, and Dana Lee Thomas. Living Biographies of Religious Leaders. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1942.

  Thomas, Henry, and Dana Lee Thomas. Living Biographies of the Great Philosophers. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1941.

  Thomas, Lewis. Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. New York: Bantam, 1983.

  Thompson, Charles. Bing: The Authorized Biography. New York: McKay, 1975, 1976.

  Thompson, Verita, and Donald Shepherd. Bogie and Me. Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1984.

  Thompson, Sir Basil. The Scene Changes. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937.

  Thomson, Virgil. A Virgil Thomson Reader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

  Thoreau, Henry David. The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.

  Thorogood, Julia. Margery Allingham: A Biography. London: Heinemann, 1991.

  Thurber, Helen, and Edward Weeks, eds. Selected Letters of James Thurber. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1981.

  Thurber, James. The Years with Ross. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1959.

  Thurow, Lester. The Zero-Sum Solution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

  Thwaite, Ann. Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849–1924. New York: Scribner, 1974.

  Ticknor, C. Dr. Holmes’s Boston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915.

  Timbs, J. Century of Anecdote from 1760 to 1860. London: R. Bentley, 1864.

  Timbs, J. English Eccentrics and Eccentricities. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Rpt. Detroit: Singing Trees Press, 1969.

  Tomkins, Calvin. Living Well Is the Best Revenge. New York: Dutton, 1982.

  Tomkins, Calvin. Merchants and Masterpieces:
The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Dutton, 1970.

  Toynbee, Arnold. Acquaintances. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.

  Train, John. True Remarkable Occurrences. New York: C. N. Potter, 1978.

  Train, John. Wit: The Best Things Ever Said. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

  Trelawny, E. J. Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858.

  Trevelyan, G. M. Trinity College. London: Cambridge University Press, 1943.

  Trilling, Lionel. Matthew Arnold. New York: Norton, 1939.

  Trollope, Anthony. Autobiography, ed. Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page. London: Oxford University Press, 1980.

  Troyat, Henri. Chekhov, trans. Michael Henry Heim. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1986.

  Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: Macmillan, 1962.

  Tuchman, Barbara. The March of Folly. New York: Knopf, 1984.

  Tuggle, Robert. The Golden Age of Opera. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.

  Tully, Grace. F.D.R., My Boss. New York: Scribner, 1949.

  Tung, Rosemary J. A Portrait of Lost Tibet. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980.

  Tynan, Kenneth. Tynan on Theatre. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1964.

  Tyndall, John. New Fragments. New York: Appleton, 1892.

  Uecker, Bob, and Mickey Herskowitz. Catcher in the Wry. New York: Putnam, 1982.

  Ukers, William Harrison. All About Coffee. New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Co., 1922.

  Untermeyer, Louis. Bygones: The Recollections of Louis Untermeyer. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965

  Untermeyer, Louis. A Treasury of Laughter. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946.

  Valerani, Richard. Travels with Henry. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

  Valerius Maximus. Facta et dicta memorabilia. Van de Velde, Ernest. Anecdotes Musicales. Tours, France: Editions van de Velde, 1926.

  Vandyke Price, Pamela. The Penguin Book of Spirits and Liqueurs. New York: Penguin, 1980.

  Varah, Chad. Samaritans in the 70s: To Befriend the Suicidal and Despairing. London: Constable, 1980.

  Vasari, G. Lives of the Painters, trans. A. B. Hinds. London: J. H. Dart, 1983.

  Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford. Madly in All Directions. London: Longmans, 1967.

  Vickers, Hugh, Great Operatic Disasters. St. Martin’s, 1979.

  Vidal, Gore. Lincoln. New York: Random House, 1984.

  Vincent, Benjamin, ed. Haydn’s Dictionary of Fates. New York: Harper, 1870.