Reading the Oxford English Dictionary

Ammon Shea

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: ALLEN LANE

Publication Date : 02/10/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A year-long account of reading the "Oxford English Dictionary", which is 20 volumes long and contains 21,730 pages. Part personal narrative and part a collection of Shea's favourite discoveries, this is full of curiosities, delights and surprises.

Publisher's description:

Features vocabulary that is both useful and useless. This title offers an account of the author's coffee-fuelled twelve months lost inside "Oxford English Dictionary". Divided into 26 chapters, one per letter of the alphabet, it is filled with curiosities, delights and surprises.

ISBN: 9781846141980