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A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology

By Samuel Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2007
ISBN
0141441577, 9780141441573
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3391204 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Edition
Reprint
Pages
704\0
Time added
2013-12-16 00:49:28

Description

Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entries, covering subjects from fashion to food, science to sex, and given in full with original spelling and examples of usage from Shakespeare to Milton.

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