2003, ISBN: 9780198607021

XXV, 260 S. Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - A kleptomaniac, the nephew of a French Emperor, the creator of an imaginary land inhabi… Mehr…

XXV, 260 S. Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - A kleptomaniac, the nephew of a French Emperor, the creator of an imaginary land inhabited by small hairy creatures, a homicidal lunatic, an Esperanto enthusiast, the man who introduced the camel to the Wild West, the captain of an all-ladies sculling team, a hermit, and the son of a Scottish draper... .. .just who were these people and what connected them to the world's greatest dictionary? In witty and absorbing prose, Simon Winchester paints lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colourful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (sometimes remembered for his fondness for his female sculling team), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. The story traces the origins of the English language and the first attempts to catalogue it, the growing desire for an all-inclusive dictionary, through to the triumphant publication of the first edition of the Dictionary in 1928 and beyond. The Meaning of Everything is rich with captivating detail: how the word aardvark narrowly missed inclusion after being deemed too 'scientific' and too 'foreign', which editor of the Dictionary became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, why Tolkien found it so difficult to define walrus, and how the word bondmaid WAS missed out of the first edition simply because the piece of paper on which it was written had fallen behind a pile of books. ISBN 9780198607021 Versand D: 4,50 EUR, [PU:Oxford: Oxford University Press,]<

2003, ISBN: 0198607024

[EAN: 9780198607021], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Oxford University Press, London], OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY SIR JAMES MURRAY COMPILATION LEXICOGRAPHY, Jacket, THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING The… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780198607021], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Oxford University Press, London], OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY SIR JAMES MURRAY COMPILATION LEXICOGRAPHY, Jacket, THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Simon Winchester. Oxford University Press, London. 2003 Second Impression. ISBN 0198607024 260pp Illustrated Hardback. Ask a logophile or crossword-puzzle addict what the holiest of holy reference works might be, and you're almost certain to receive a three-letter acronym in reply: the OED. The Meaning of Everything is its story. Now in 20 volumes and still growing, the Oxford English Dictionary is an astounding monument, one that, like the Great Wall and the Roman Forum, seems to have been around forever. But, writes the always interesting explorer Simon Winchester, it took decades-and considerable sums of money--to bring it into being. The Scottish autodidact James Augustus Henry Murray, surrounded by a small army of underpaid and overworked helpers, laboured over it for more than half a century, seeing into print "a total of 227,779,589 letters and numbers, occupying fully 178 miles of type" that brought the elusive histories of words such as walrus (courtesy of JRR Tolkien) and cow ("the female of any bovine animal", courtesy of Murray himself) into sharp relief. The making of the great dictionary over the years and decades seems an unlikely topic for a sometimes romantic, sometimes suspenseful tale, but Winchester delivers just that. Those who cherish words will find it a constant pleasure. This copy is in MINT condition in a MINT unclipped dust wrapper. Ref GG3, Books<

2003, ISBN: 0198607024

[EAN: 9780198607021], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Aachen, Oxford u.a.: University Press], WINCHESTER, SIMON: THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING. STORY OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. [VON SIMON WINC… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780198607021], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Aachen, Oxford u.a.: University Press], WINCHESTER, SIMON: THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING. STORY OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. [VON SIMON WINCHESTER]. U.A.: UNIVERSITY PRESS 2003., Jacket, XXVI, 260 Seiten. Mit einem Frontispiz und einigen schwarz-weißen Abbildungen sowie illustrierten Innendeckeln. Besitzeinträge mit weichem Bleistift auf dem Vorsatz, sonst tadelloses, fast neuwertiges Exemplar. ISBN: 0198607024 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 760 8° (22,5 x 15 cm). Orig.-Pappband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und illustriertem Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden]., Books<

2003, ISBN: 0198607024

[EAN: 9780198607021], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.], OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. LANGUAGE LEXICOGRAPHY HISTORY 19TH CENTURY. MURRAY, JA… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780198607021], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.], OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. LANGUAGE LEXICOGRAPHY HISTORY 19TH CENTURY. MURRAY, JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY, SIR, 1837-1915. LEXICOGRAPHERS GREAT BRITAIN BIOGRAPHY. FURNIVALL, FREDERICK JAMES, 1825-1910. COLERIDGE, HERBERT, 1830-1861., Jacket, xxv, 260 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm., Books<

2003, ISBN: 9780198607021

Paperback, ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL., Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, General, General AAS, Europe, Bestsellers, Dictionaries, Reference, Books & Reading, English, Paperback, Regul… Mehr…

Paperback, ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL., Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, General, General AAS, Europe, Bestsellers, Dictionaries, Reference, Books & Reading, English, Paperback, Regular Size, [PU: Oxford University Press]<