Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
基本信息·出版社：Perigee Trade ·页码：256 页 ·出版日期：2009年05月 ·ISBN：0399535055 ·International Standard Book Number：0399535055 ·条形 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Perigee Trade
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2009年05月
·ISBN：0399535055
·International Standard Book Number：0399535055
·条形码：9780399535055
·EAN：9780399535055
·版本：Reprint
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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An obsessive word lover's account of reading the entire
Oxford English Dictionary, hailed as "the
Super Size Me of lexicography."
"I'm reading the
OED so you don't have to," says Ammon Shea on his slightly masochistic journey to scale the word lover's Mount Everest: the
Oxford English Dictionary. In 26 chapters filled with sharp wit, sheer delight, and a documentarian's keen eye, Shea shares his year inside the
OED, delivering a hair-pulling, eye-crossing account of reading every word.
作者简介 Ammon Shea read his first dictionary,
Merriam Webster's Second International, ten years ago, and followed it up with the sequel,
Webster's Third International. He has been reading dictionaries, lexicons, and glossaries ever since. He lives surrounded by large, old books.
编辑推荐 "Oddly inspiring...Shea has walked the wildwood of our gnarled, ancient speech and returned singing incomprehensible sounds in a language that turns out to be our own."
-Nicholson Baker,
New York Times Book Review "Delicious...a lively lexicon."
-
O, The Oprah Magazine
"Readworthy."
-William Safire,
The New York Times Magazine
