Best Selling Books by Clifton Fadiman

“Fadiman may do for the anecdote what Bartlett did for the quotation . . . A thoroughly entertaining and useful reference source.” —School Library Journal Along with an introduction, an index of themes, and a bibliography, this A-to-Z collection includes anecdotes about over two thousand famous people, from Alexander the Great to Muhammad Ali. An enjoyable journey through history and popular culture, it offers a blend of biographical tidbits with words of wisdom and just plain funny stories. “Tailor-made for speech writers in search of the right story for a special occasion or for those who enjoy browsing among quotes from our brightest wordsmiths.” —People

Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others. This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; and The 20th Century), making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.

From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett''s Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett''s Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.

Essays on literary and other subjects.

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Essays on various subjects, some of which were originally book reviews. Much of the material has appeared in "Holiday", the "New Yorker", and other periodicals.

Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1964.

Este libro se publicó por primera vez en Estados Unidos en 1960 y a día de hoy sigue entre los más vendidos en ese país. Clifton Fadiman realizó cuatro revisiones de su célebre plan (la última, que ahora presentamos, en 1998). El concepto es sencillo y revolucionario: en el mundo en que vivimos tenemos un tiempo finito que dedicar a la lectura, por lo que es vital que seleccionemos con acierto los libros en que lo invertimos. El plan de lectura para toda la vida es precisamente eso: la mejor selección disponible de todo aquello que vale la pena leer. Una selección que avalan casi cincuenta años de éxito continuado y que se ha convertido por sí misma en un auténtico clásico.

Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, learns the true meaning of Christmas after he is visited by the ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future.

Allegorical fantasy about people, gods, and Irish fairies.

This long-awaited, indispensable volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry encompasses the many realms of poetry -- poetry of all styles, of all eras, of all tongues: from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh and the Pharaoh Akhenaten''s "Hymn to the Sun" to the haiku of Basho and the dazzling imagery of Li Po; from Vedic hymns to Icelandic sagas to the "Carmina Burana"; from the magnificence of Homer and Dante to the lyricism of Goethe and Verlaine; from the piercing insights of Rilke and Yeats to the revelatory verse of Emily Dickinson, Garcia Lorca, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and so many more. While World Poetry includes a generous selection of the best English-language verse from Chaucer to the present, it is designed to lay before the reader the best that all the world''s cultures have to offer -- more than eighty percent of the book is poetry originally written in languages other than English and translated by some of the finest talents working today, many of them brilliant poets in their own right. This is no mere sampler: In choosing only works of the highest intrinsic quality, the editors have created a book that will surprise knowledgeable readers and lead newcomers to an understanding of the glories of world poetry that is our common heritage.