A Dictionary Of The English Language: An Anthology

by Samuel Johnson

2021-01-09 03:50:18

Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language Samuel Johnson''s best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyn... Read more
Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language 

Samuel Johnson''s 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 Brontës 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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Less

Book Details

File size7.8 X 5.1 X 1.21 in
Print pages704
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date December 26, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780141441573
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayi...

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