Defining the world : the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
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
Print Book, English, 2005
1st American ed View all formats and editions
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780374113025, 9780739468470, 0374113025, 0739468472
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Adventurous
Amulet
Apple
Bookworm
Commoner
Darkling
To decamp
To dissipate
English
Entrance
Factotum
To gather
Higgledy-piggledy
Lexicographer
Library
Melancholy
Microscope
Network
Nicety
To note
Opinionist
Opulence
Pastern
Patron
Philology
Pleasureful
To preface
Publication
Reception
Triumphant
Ubiquity
Variety
Weightiness
X
Zootomy
"Originally published in 2005 by John Murray (Publishers) ... as Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: the extraordinary story of the book that defined the world"--Title page verso
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