Author: Annie M. BrewerPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books: English books
Author: Annie M. BrewerPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books: Non-English books
Author: Annie M. BrewerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Reading the OED
Author: Ammon SheaPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440634483
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
An obsessive word lover's account of reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary, hailed as "the Super Size Me of lexicography." "I'm reading the OED so you don't have to," says Ammon Shea on his slightly masochistic journey to scale the word lover's Mount Everest: the Oxford English Dictionary. In 26 chapters filled with sharp wit, sheer delight, and a documentarian's keen eye, Shea shares his year inside the OED, delivering a hair-pulling, eye-crossing account of reading every word.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books
Author: Annie M. BrewerDictionaries, Encyclopedias and Other Word-related Books ...
Author: Annie M. BrewerDictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books
Author: Annie M. BrewerPublisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books: Multiple languages (with English as one language)
Author: Annie M. BrewerPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN: 9780810311923
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books
Author: Annie M. BrewerDictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books: Non-English books
Author: Annie M. BrewerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Liar's Dictionary
Author: Eley WilliamsPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385546785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.