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Rarefied Words for the Well-Rounded Reader from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of 1755 Knowledge Cards Deck
Rarefied Words for the WellRounded Reader from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of 1755 Knowledge Cards Deck
Author: Pomegranate, Pomegranate
From Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of 1755 — Dr. Johnson s dictionary defined the English language for 150 years. It was the lexicon of choice for Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickens, the Brontes, and the Brownings. Hardy and Wilde would have felt naked without it. The dictionaries we use today owe their form to Johnson s eighteenth-century prototype. — ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780764928833
ISBN-10: 076492883X
Publication Date: 5/1/2004
Pages: 48
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Publisher: Pomegranate
Book Type: Paperback
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