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Publication Year
2020
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Item Height
155mm
Author
Pip Williams
Publisher
Affirm Press
Genre
Historical
Item Width
234mm
Item Weight
550 g
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word 'bondmaid' flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS. Set when the women's suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It's a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.

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Affirm Press
ISBN-13
9781925972597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Author
Pip Williams
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Historical
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Item Height
155mm
Item Width
234mm
Item Weight
550 g

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Pip Williams
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia

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  • by datsunute
    09 Mar, 2024

    The book club ladies voted to read it

    It is an unbelievable plot that brings life to the way Dictionaries are compiled seen through the eyes of a young girl.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: finest_goods23

  • by topdeals4unow2011
    19 Oct, 2023

    Wonderful book.

    An amazing read.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: outbackncity

  • by msraph64
    24 Jun, 2022

    Double entendre of title sums up the ideas and plot development.

    Cleverly written, intriguing plot development . Highly recommended.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: chani43

  • by lawriepat2006
    10 Jun, 2021

    Words With Humour Are Interesting !!

    Like All Reading You Have To Like WORDS !! An Interesting Concept.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: campbellswholesale*

  • by grandy007*
    29 Aug, 2023

    Describes the book well

    Beautifully written !

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: googlushee

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