Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
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Henry Hitchings
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Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

Henry Hitchings

292 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Sa...

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