Book: A Dictionary Of The English Language: An Anthology( Series - Penguin Classics ) Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language
Samuel Johnsonas best-known work, "A Dictionary of the English Language" (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the BrontAs and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entries, covering subjects from fashion to food, science to sex, and given in full with original spelling and examples of usage from Shakespeare to Milton.
Details of Book: A Dictionary Of The English Language: An Anthology( Series - Penguin Classics ) Book: A Dictionary Of The English Language: An Anthology( Series - Penguin Classics )
Author: Samuel Johnson, David Crystal
ISBN: 0141441577
ISBN-13: 9780141441573
, 978-0141441573
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2007/10/30
Publisher: Penguin Group Usa
Number of Pages: 650
Language: English