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A Dictionary of the English Language

Paperback • 2007 • English

A Dictionary of the English Language

By Samuel Johnson

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About the book

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontes and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal,...Show more

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ISBN

9780141441573

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

A Dictionary of the English Language

Format

Paperback

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