THE READER'S GUIDE TO EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY : BEING A CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST 888 VOLUMES by R FARQUHARSON SHARP
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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
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'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to . . . ' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongre ...Show more
WEEDS IN THE GARDEN OF WORDS : FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE TANGLED HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by KATE BURRIDGE
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Blooming English : Observations On The Roots, Cultivation And Hybrids Of The English Language by KATE BURRIDGE
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Gift of the Gob : Morsels of English Language History by Kate Burridge
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Why can we fall in love but not in hate? What do codswallop and poppycock share? Why not one house and two hice? How come we scream blue murder, sing the blues and turn the air blue? In Gift of the Gob Kate Burridge explores our language and the everlasting tug-of-love that exists between 'proper' Engli ...Show more
Writers of The Bulletin by Douglas Stewart
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Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace by Kathryn B. Feuer
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"The best thing ever done on how Tolstoy wrote War and Peace. Feuer shows us an incredible complexity in terms of the creative process. You see the seams and joints in the novel."?Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University"In 1963, Kathryn B. Feuer had access to the manuscripts of the drafts for the nove ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
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Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. "Everybod ...Show more
Manglish : Whatever Happened to our Language? by Harold Scruby
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Poisoned Pens : Literary Invective from Amis to Zola by Gary Dexter (ed)
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'With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare.' George Bernard Shaw From what Byron really thought of Keats to Salman Rushdie's savage put-down of John Le Carre, from Cocteau's damning view of Victor Hu ...Show more
Australian Women Writers : A Bibliographic Guide by DEBRA ADELAIDE
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