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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Page 137

by Clifton Fadiman


  Carroll, L., 1

  Chandler, 1

  Chaplin, 3

  Chekhov, 3

  Cocteau, 4

  Cohn, 3

  Coleridge, 2

  Colette, 1

  Congreve, 1

  Coolidge, 7

  Cooper, Gary, 3

  Cooper, J. F., 1

  Courteline, 1

  Dana, 1

  Disraeli, 7

  Dreiser, 1–2

  Dumas père, 1

  Eliot, T. S., 2–7

  Emerson, 8

  Epstein, 1

  Faulkner, 2–3, 4–5, 7

  Fielding, 1

  Fisher, 1

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 2

  Flaubert, 1–2

  Gardner, E. S., 1

  Gibbon, 3

  Glyn, 1

  Goethe, 4

  Goldsmith, 1

  Goldwyn, 5, 8, 13, 16

  Gray, 1

  Greene, 1

  Hardy, 1

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 3

  Heggen, 1

  Hemingway, 1–3

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 3

  Howells, 1–2

  Hugo, 1, 4

  Hume, 1

  Ibsen, 3

  Inge, 1

  James, W., 3–4

  Jerrold, 1

  Johnson, N., 1

  Johnson, S., 3, 16

  Joyce, James, 1–2, 5, 7, 9

  Kerouac, 2

  Kipling, 2

  Koestler, 1

  Lawrence, D. H., 1

  Lenclos, 2

  Leonard, 1

  Lewis, S., 3

  Lowell, R., 3

  Lucas, 3

  Lytton, 1

  McCullers, 1–3

  Mann, 1

  Maugham, 1

  Melbourne, 4

  Miller, 1

  Mitchell, 1

  Mizner, W., 14

  Moore, G. A., 4

  Nabokov, 2

  O’Hara, J., 1–3

  Ouida, 1

  Rochefort, 2

  Ross, 13

  Russell, B., 4

  Salinger, 1

  Scarron, 1–2

  Scott, 3

  Sharp, 1

  Simenon, 1

  Spillane, 1

  Staël, 2

  Stafford, 1

  Stein, 1, 5, 8–9

  Stowe, 1–2

  Talleyrand, 5

  Tennyson, 9

  Thackeray, 3

  Thoreau, 2

  Thurber, 2

  Trollope, A., 3

  Twain, 11

  Tyler, 1

  Wharton, 1

  Wilson, E., 1

  Wolfe, T., 1

  Woollcott, 3

  Wordsworth, 2

  yachts

  Bernard, 3

  Morgan, J. P., Jr., 1

  Yale

  O’Hara, J., 1

  Parker, D., 5

  Yalta conference

  Churchill, W., 19

  Stalin, 3

  Yom Kippur

  Silverman, 1

  youth

  Alexander VI, 1

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 7

  zoology

  Cuvier, 1

  zoos

  Darwin, C. R., 3

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