Defining the world

the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

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292 pages 2005

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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.

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