Defining the world

By Henry Hitchings

Subjects: Histoire, English language, History, Lexicography, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Lexikographie, Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Anglais (Langue), Anglais (langue), Wörterbuch, Encyclopédies et dictionnaires, Lexicographie

Description: Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into a major European language.