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This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 646
Authors: Peter Gilliver
Categories: History
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This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely am
The Meaning of Everything
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Simon Winchester OBE
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was
The Meaning of Everything
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Simon Winchester
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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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
Visionary Philology
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Matthew Sperling
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

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This book-length study of the poetry and critical writing of Geoffrey Hill, one of the major post-war writers in English, combines nuanced and incisive close re