Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary - Brossura

Murray, K. M. Elisabeth

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ISBN 10: 0300089198 ISBN 13: 9780300089196

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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 first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.
?It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth.”?Anthony  Burgess
?A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant.”?Times (London)
?A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself?grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship.”?Time
?In her vivid biography, Murray’s granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED’s long and difficult birth.”?Times Literary Supplement
?A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked.”?Sunday Times (London)

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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 first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to whole enterprise being abandoned.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300089198
• ISBN 13: 9780300089196
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400