Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase &d Fable - Rilegato

Ayto, John; Crofton, Ian

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ISBN 10: 0304368091 ISBN 13: 9780304368099

Casa editrice: Cassell, 2007

Riassunto

The first edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable was warmly praised on publication in 2000: 'I can't remember when I last learnt quite so many different things from just one book', said Craig Brown in the Mail on Sunday. The new edition focuses not just on the linguistic and cultural resonance of thousands of contemporary words and phrases (the 'phrase' component), but also on the riches of the modern verbal imagination as expressed in a host of titles, characters and allusions from cultural arenas as diverse as film, literature, art, music, comic strips and computer games (the 'fable' component). For this second edition, new editors John Ayto and Ian Crofton have polished, revised and updated the entire existing text and added some 1000 new articles. The latter include recent words and phrases (bootylicious, 9/11), words and characters from recent literature (daemon, Hogwarts), and - continuing the century-old Brewer's practice of recording unexpected information that is not available in other general reference books - a range of 'list entries' on topics as diverse as words and phrases in British Asian English and some unfamiliar foreign translations of well-known movie titles.

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Recensione:

"I can't remember when I last learnt quite so many different things from one book"

(Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday)

"...peerless...Brewer's has kept ahead of the game by compiling this
marvelous compendium...It has captured the flavour of the past 100 years"

(The Times)

L'autore:

Ian Crofton has compiled many works of reference, books of quotations and miscellanies over the yers, including A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (with Donald Fraser), A Dictionary of Art Quotations, The Guinness Encyclopedia (as editor-in-chief), Brewer's Dictionary of Curious Titles, and, with John Ayto Brewer's Britain and Ireland and the 2nd edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable. He lives in North London. John Ayto is a writer and lexicographer. He is the editor of the 17th edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and co-author (with Ian Crofton) of Brewer's Britain and Ireland. His other authorial credits include The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang and The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Histories. He lives in London. Ian Crofton is a writer and editor. His publications include Brewer's Curious Titles, A Dictionary of Musical Quotations and A Dictionary of Art Quotations, and he was editor-in-chief of The Guinness Encyclopedia. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Cassell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0304368091
• ISBN 13: 9780304368099
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 853