A Third Browser's Dictionary

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		A Third Browser's Dictionary
		A Third Browser's Dictionary

基本信息·出版社：The Akadine Press
·页码：343 页
·出版日期：2001年03月
·ISBN：1888173432/9781888173437
·条形码：9781888173437
·版本：1
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：英语词语成语释源词典

内容简介 Book Description
Delightful explorations of the roots (and branches) of words and phrases.

From the Publisher
Esteemed poet, translator, critic, and author of children's books, John Ciardi devoted a good part of his later literary career to the "word rambles" that, collected in his Browser's Dictionaries, take us on a wonderfully winding path through the landscape of language. His three compendiums of curious expressions and intriguing facts are enlivened by a reader's inquisitiveness and a writer's ingenuity. In these pages you'll discover the bitter herb at the root of sardonic, the Biblical fly in the ointment, what provides the pleasure in happy as a clam, and hundreds of other insights into our linguistic heritage. Also available in Common Reader Editions: A Browser's Dictionary and A Second Browser's Dictionary.
专业书评 Stricken with polio as a kid. Floored by sedation-addiction (booze and pills) and depression in middle age. Blind-sided by cancer in his most recent years. Were you looking for a spokesperson for the JustiTed Self-pity Foundation you would have to look no further than Wilfrid Sheed. But for this eminent novelist and essayist it has been the “primal insight” of his bouts with a brace of illnesses, each of which have caused him “to lose something I would have sworn I couldn’t live without,” that just being alive, “even on a no-frills basis, is astoundingly good.” And in the giddy rush of that realization there’s just no room for feeling sorry for oneself. Written in an inimitably rough-housing prose, Sheed’s uplifting memoir dramatically details the “bad night” that illness is, then puts its whole soul into celebrating waking from the night to fall “head over heels in love with daylight.”

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