$11.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Pleasant . . . [a] fascinating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the actual girls whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Instances Ebook Overview
“A wonderful fiction in regards to the energy of language to raise or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Instances bestselling writer of Folks of the Ebook
Esme is born right into a world of phrases. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood within the Scriptorium, an Oxford backyard shed through which her father and a crew of devoted lexicographers are accumulating phrases for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Younger Esme’s place is beneath the sorting desk, unseen and unheard. In the future a slip of paper containing the phrase bondmaid flutters beneath the desk. She rescues the slip and, studying that the phrase means “slave lady,” begins to gather different phrases which have been discarded or uncared for by the dictionary males.
As she grows up, Esme realizes that phrases and meanings regarding girls’s and customary people’ experiences usually go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to look out phrases for her personal dictionary: the Dictionary of Misplaced Phrases. To take action she should depart the sheltered world of the college and enterprise out to fulfill the individuals whose phrases will fill these pages.
Set throughout the peak of the ladies’s suffrage motion and with the Nice Warfare looming, The Dictionary of Misplaced Phrases reveals a misplaced narrative, hidden between the strains of a historical past written by males. Impressed by precise occasions, writer Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to inform this extremely authentic story. The Dictionary of Misplaced Phrases is a pleasant, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of phrases and the facility of language to form the world.
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD
From the Writer
Writer : Random Home Publishing Group (Might 3, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 1984820745
ISBN-13 : 978-1984820747
Merchandise Weight : 10.1 ounces
Dimensions : 5.12 x 0.86 x 7.97 inches
Worth: $11.99
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