Defining the worldHenry Hitchings
Defining the world
Henry Hitchings · 2005
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About the book
Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into a major European language.
Book details
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 292
- ISBN
- 9780374113025
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