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The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

Gathers brief anecdotes about more than two thousand people, from Muhammad Ali to Zeno, Ansel Adams to Frank Lloyd Wright, and Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde

By Clifton Fadiman

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Hardcover:

9780316273015 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Gathers brief anecdotes about more than two thousand people, from Muhammad Ali to Zeno, Ansel Adams to Frank Lloyd Wright, and Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde

Paperback:

9780316273053 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gathers brief anecdotes about more than two thousand people, from Muhammad Ali to Zeno, Ansel Adams to Frank Lloyd Wright, and Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde

Miscellaneous:

9780316084727 | Little Brown & Co, October 31, 2009, cover price $9.99

Great Books of the Western World

By Mortimer Jerome Adler (editor), Clifton Fadiman (editor) and Philip W. Goetz (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780852295311 | Encyclopedia Britannica Inc, September 1, 2004, cover price $1436.25

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Enhanced by concise biographical profiles of each author, this entertaining reference presents a series of short anecdotes by and about more than two thousand people from around the world, including selections from notable wits, politicians, artists, musicians, athletes, movie stars, celebrities, rock legends, and many others. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Andre Bernard (editor) and Clifton Fadiman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780316082679 | Rev sub edition (Little Brown & Co, September 21, 2000), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Presents a series of short anecdotes by and about more than 2,000 people from around the world, including selections from notable politicians, artists, musicians, athletes, movie stars, celebrities, and rock legends.

Miscellaneous:

9780446960854 | Little Brown & Co, September 21, 2000, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Enhanced by concise biographical profiles of each author, this entertaining reference presents a series of short anecdotes by and about more than two thousand people from around the world, including selections from notable wits, politicians, artists, musicians, athletes, movie stars, celebrities, rock legends, and many others.

The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Works of high regard ranging from ancient writings to modern classics are noted as well as discussions of the writer's work as a whole, critical evaluations of each work, and suggested related readings

By Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major

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Hardcover:

9780062702081 | 4th edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1997), cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780062720733 | 4th edition (Harperreference, June 1, 1999), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Works of high regard ranging from ancient writings to modern classics are noted as well as discussions of the writer's work as a whole, critical evaluations of each work, and suggested related readings

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time

An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, eighty percent of them originally written in languages other than English, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. (view table of contents)

By Clifton Fadiman (editor), John S. Major (editor) and Katharine Washburn

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Hardcover:

9780393041309 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An anthology of the best poetry ever written contains more than sixteen hundred poems, spanning more than four millennia, from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century

I May Not Be Totally Perfect, but Parts of Me Are Excellent

Nearly three hundred brilliant thoughts or 'pot shots' are presented with humorous illustrations on the themes of communication, time and change, pleasure, life, and other topics of human concern

By Ashleigh Brilliant and Clifton Fadiman (introduced by)

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9780912800660 | Brilliant Enterprises, September 1, 1978, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Nearly three hundred brilliant thoughts or 'pot shots' are presented with humorous illustrations on the themes of communication, time and change, pleasure, life, and other topics of human concern

Paperback:

9780912800677 | Brilliant Enterprises, May 1, 1997, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Nearly three hundred brilliant thoughts or 'pot shots' are presented with humorous illustrations on the themes of communication, time and change, pleasure, life, and other topics of human concern

Fantasia Mathematica: Being a Set of Stories, Together With a Group of Oddments and Diversions, All Drawn from the Universe of Mathematics

By Clifton Fadiman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780671244507 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1958, cover price $8.95

The Mathematical Magpie: Being More Stories, Mainly Transcendental, Plus Subjects of Essays, Rhymes, Music, Anecdotes, Epigrams, and Other Prime Oddments and Diversions, ratio

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By Clifton Fadiman (compiler)

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Paperback:

9780387949505 | Reprint edition (Copernicus Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $99.00

The Lifetime Reading Plan

Works of high regard ranging from ancient writings to modern classics are notes as well as discussions of the writer's work as a whole, critical evaluations of each work, and suggested related readings

By Clifton Fadiman

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Paperback:

9780062732149 | 4th edition (Harpercollins, March 1, 1997), cover price $13.00

9780062730640 | 3rd edition (Harpercollins), cover price $13.00 | also contains A Spiritual Home: Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830-1915 | About this edition: Works of high regard ranging from ancient writings to modern classics are notes as well as discussions of the writer's work as a whole, critical evaluations of each work, and suggested related readings

The World Treasury of Love Stories

A treasury of love stories from around the world features a wide range of contributors from Chekov, Joyce, and Colette to Alice Walker, John Updike, and Raymond Carver, and captures the many moods of love and the parallels between cultures. UP.

By Clifton Fadiman (editor) and Lucy Rosenthal (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780195093612 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A treasury of love stories from around the world features a wide range of contributors from Chekov, Joyce, and Colette to Alice Walker, John Updike, and Raymond Carver, and captures the many moods of love and the parallels between cultures.

Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher

By Clifton Fadiman (foreword by) and Mark J. Madigan (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780826261083 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $55.00

9780826208842 | Univ of Missouri Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $55.00

The Treasury of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: More Then Two Centuries of Facts, Curiosities, and Discoveries from the Most Distinguished Reference W

A compendium of articles from the archives of The Encyclopaedia Britannica traces the growth of knowledge in different fields and features writings by brilliant contributors on their subjects of expertise. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. BOMC.

By Clifton Fadiman (editor), Bruce L. Felknor (editor) and Robert McHenry (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780670835683 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Articles from 'The Encyclopaedia Britannica' trace the growth of knowledge in different fields

The New Joys of Wine

By Sam Aaron, Clifton Fadiman and Darlene Geis

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Hardcover:

9780810936522 | Harry N Abrams Inc, November 1, 1990, cover price $65.00

Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women of Our Time

Thirty-five great modern thinkers and writers, from fields including science, literature, politics, and theology, compose their 'last will and testament to mankind,' revealing the personal philosophies that have shaped their lives and their work

By Clifton Fadiman (editor)

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9780385248808 | Doubleday, August 1, 1990, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Thirty-five great modern thinkers and writers, from fields including science, literature, politics, and theology, compose their 'last will and testament to mankind,' revealing the personal philosophies that have shaped their lives and their work

The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought

Gathers selections from the writings of Camus, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Solzhenitsyn, Yu-Lan Feng, and Dorothy Day

By Clifton Fadiman (editor) and Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

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Hardcover:

9780316697705 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Gathers selections from the writings of Camus, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Solzhenitsyn, Yu-Lan Feng, and Dorothy Day

A Toast to Wines and Spirits

Reproduces posters from the turn of the century advertising wines, aperitifs, and spirits and offers brief biographies of many of the artists responsible for producing these works

By Clifton Fadiman

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Paperback:

9780810924048 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Reproduces posters from the turn of the century advertising wines, aperitifs, and spirits and offers brief biographies of many of the artists responsible for producing these works

The World Treasury of Science Fiction

Gathers stories by Vonnegut, Ballard, Sturgeon, Clarke, Lem, Bester, Heinlein, Sheckley, Niven, Pohl, Asimov, Calvino, Borges, and the Strugatskys

By Clifton Fadiman and David Hartwell

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Hardcover:

9780316349413 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Gathers stories by Vonnegut, Ballard, Sturgeon, Clarke, Lem, Bester, Heinlein, Sheckley, Niven, Pohl, Asimov, Calvino, Borges, and the Strugatskys

Wally the Wordworm

A whimsical story about a worm with a voracious appetite for vocabulary

By Clifton Fadiman

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Hardcover:

9780880451017 | Har/cas edition (Stemmer House Pub Audio, September 1, 1986), cover price $21.90

9780880450386 | Stemmer House Pub, February 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A whimsical story about a worm with a voracious appetite for vocabulary

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780880450980 | Stemmer House Pub Audio, September 1, 1986, cover price $8.95

A Swinger of Birches

By Clifton Fadiman

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Paperback:

9780880451024 | Pap/cas edition (Stemmer House Pub Audio, September 1, 1986), cover price $23.90

A Swinger of Birches: Poems of Robert Frost for Young People

By Clifton Fadiman

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780880450997 | Stemmer House Pub Audio, September 1, 1986, cover price $8.95

The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection

Spanning in scope from this century's early moderns, including Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, and Colette, to the best of todays practitioners, such as Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates, this collection features sixty-two stories from sixteen countries

By Clifton Fadiman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780517034002 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1986, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Spanning in scope from this century's early moderns, including Somerset Maugham, D.

The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Book 3

Collects a wide variety of stories and poems by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, the Grimm Brothers, A.A. Milne, and Maurice Sendak

By Clifton Fadiman

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Hardcover:

9780316273039 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A three-volume anthology of classical and contemporary children's stories, poems, myths, and legends from many countries.

The World Treasury of Children's Literature

Collects a wide variety of stories and poems by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, the Grimm Brothers, A.A. Milne, and Maurice Sendak

By Clifton Fadiman

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Hardcover:

9780316273022 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1984, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A three-volume anthology of classical and contemporary children's stories, poems, myths, and legends from many countries.

The Mathematical Magpie: Being More Stories, Mainly Transcendental, Plus Subsets of Essays, Rhymes, Music, Anecdotes, Epigrams, and Other Prime Oddme

Gathers stories and other writings that deal with the wonder and oddity of mathematics

By Clifton Fadiman (editor)

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Paperback:

9780671438074 | Rev upd su edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1981), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Gathers stories and other writings that deal with the wonder and oddity of mathematics

Empty Pages: A Search for Writing Competence in School and Society

Identifies cultural reasons for the lack of writing competence in public schools, defends the importance of writing, and examines the way writing is taught

By Clifton Fadiman, James Howard and Suzanne Lipset

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Hardcover:

9780822427001 | Fearon/Janus/Quercus, April 1, 1979, cover price $12.65 | About this edition: Identifies cultural reasons for the lack of writing competence in public schools, defends the importance of writing, and examines the way writing is taught

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