| | The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is on sale!!! ISBN13: 9780195222517 ISBN10: 0195222512
Hardback, 22,256 pages, In Stock Price:$1,500.00 $895.00 (06) Description"The greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken."-- The New York Times . "The richest people in the world are those who have the OED on their shelves. Here is the greatest treasure of words waiting to be assembled into fiery tracts and rants, literary novels, histories, sagas, comic poems, exposes, polemics, tall tales and learned treatises, kids' books, advert copy, reports on busted dams and declarations, all the expressions of a hundred different cultures. And the sturdy boxes in which the dictionary comes are each the perfect size for a manuscript. So there it is, all the raw material a writer needs for a lifetime of work."-Annie Proulx. This new OED set is the ultimate gift for all word lovers. With the purchase of the legendary 20-volume OED , you'll receive a free copy of the acclaimed Meaning of Everything , a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary . Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project--a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivalled uber-dictionary. Reviews"The greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken."--The New York Times "The richest people in the world are those who have the OED on their shelves. Here is the greatest treasure of words waiting to be assembled into fiery tracts and rants, literary novels, histories, sagas, comic poems, exposes, polemics, tall tales and learned treatises, kids' books, advert copy, reports on busted dams and declarations, all the expressions of a hundred different cultures. And the sturdy boxes in which the dictionary comes are each the perfect size for a manuscript. So there it is, all the raw material a writer needs for a lifetime of work."-Annie Proulx Product Details22256 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-522251-7ISBN10: 0-19-522251-2  |
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