The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

432 pages digital 2020

83 editions

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In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit.Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless ...

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