Defining the world

By Henry Hitchings

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

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.