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288 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195175004
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition Pub Date: 14 October 2004
Description
From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and KrakatoaWriting with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great diction...
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288 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195175004
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition Pub Date: 14 October 2004
Description
From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and KrakatoaWriting with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great diction...