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Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary

Henry Hitchings




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 | #1305198 in Books |  2006-10-17 |  2006-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.3 x5.50l,.60 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A World of Words|By Christian Schlect|A small book about Dr. Johnson and his dictionary that defined an age. It is a wonderful effort for those who love the English language and the words that give it life.

Only in his early thirties, Mr. Hitchings is a talented and intelligent writer of the type Dr. Johnson, if he were alive today, would certainly appreciate and inv|From Publishers Weekly|For the 250th anniversary of Dr. Samuel Johnson's most famous achievement, Hitchings's charming philology-as-biography shows Johnson to be no mere compiler of words but, as he himself put it, "a writer of dictionaries." Authoritative dicti

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In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first comprehensive English dictionary. Imagining he could complete the job in three years, Johnson in fact took more than eight, and the dictionary itself turned out to be as much a work of literature as it was an invaluable reference. In alphabetized chapters, from "Adventurous" to "Zootomy," Henry Hitchings tells of Johnson's toil an...

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