The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon - Brossura

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0618381961 ISBN 13: 9780618381968

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2003

Riassunto

A fascinating journey inside the mysteries of the English language celebrates the rich diversity of speech and the overall sensuality of language, in the meanings of the most obscure of words and in the most common, from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble. Reprint.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Karen Elizabeth Gordon is the author of the classic and comic reference books The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, and Torn Wings and Faux Pas. Her wanderlusting fiction includes The Ravenous Muse, The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales, and Paris Out of Hand. She lives in Berkeley, California and Paris.

Product Description:

With her signature cache of illustrations and flamboyantly gothic examples, Gordon, "who has achieved cult status with her whimsical references, defines an array of daffy, delicious words" ("Library Journal").

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0618381961
• ISBN 13: 9780618381968
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 180