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Author:

Williams, Pip, 1969- author.

Title:

The dictionary of lost words : a novel / Pip Williams.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Ballantine Books,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiv, 376 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm

Subject:

Lexicographers--Fiction.
Oxford English dictionary--Fiction.
Women--Suffrage--Fiction.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Oxford--Oxford--History--Fiction.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Oxford (England)--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Notes:

"Originally published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2020."--Title page verso.

Summary:

In this remarkable debut novel 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. --Dust jacket flap.

ISBN:

0593160193
9780593160190

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1242943637

LCCN:

2020019157

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