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376 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780593160190
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication date: 06 April 2021
Description
In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherles...
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376 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780593160190
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication date: 06 April 2021
Description
In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherles...