The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English DictionaryOxford University Press, 2004 - 260 páginas Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--And pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. (Midwest). |
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Taking the Measure of It All | 1 |
The Construction of the PigeonHoles | 46 |
The General Officer Commanding | 72 |
Battling with the Undertow | 97 |
Pushing through the Untrodden Forest | 134 |
So Heavily Goes the Chariot | 160 |
The Hermit and the Murdererand Hereward Thimbleby Price | 186 |
From Take to Turndownand then Triumphal Valediction | 216 |
And Always Beginning Again | 238 |
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Picture Acknowledgements | 260 |
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