Parámetros
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2004
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Simon Winchester
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0192805762
- ISBN13
- 9780192805768
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Guías y Manuales, Idiomas, Lingüística, Sobre libros
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- "We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.