Parametre
- 288 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
Viac o knihe
"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2004
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Simon Winchester
- Vydavateľ
- Oxford University Press
- Rok vydania
- 2004
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0192805762
- ISBN13
- 9780192805768
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Spoločenské vedy, Historické téma, Skutočné príbehy, Životopisy, História, Príručky a návody, Jazyky, Lingvistika, O knihách
- Hodnotenie
- 4 z 5
- Anotácia
- "We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.