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Williams, Pip

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ISBN 10: 1784743879 ISBN 13: 9781784743871

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2021

Riassunto

A moving and immersive debut: when a team of scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters starts a parallel book containing all the "objectionable" words the men choose to omit.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney and now calls the Adelaide Hills home. She is the author of the much-loved memoir One Italian Summer and the national number one bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2021. Pip has also published travel articles, book reviews, flash fiction and poetry.

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Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.

Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word 'bondmaid' flutter to the floor unclaimed.

Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1784743879
• ISBN 13: 9781784743871
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile