Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Author(s): Camilla Rockwood (ed.)
This revised and expanded edition features hundreds of new entries on everything from blogs and designer babies to New York's mysterious sewer-dwelling alligators, as well as a selection of 'heritage entries' from a Victorian edition of Brewer's: see enchanted castles, magic garters and poison detectors.The sheer scope of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, together with its delightful mix of scholarship and eccentricity, makes it a must for every 21st-century bookshelf.Brewer's. Take the scenic route to knowledge.
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An idiosyncratic adventure, pulling you in and saying: "this is, in fact, not what you werelooking for; but it's much more interesting." -- Terry Pratchett Of all the dictionaries in the world [Brewer's] is the most like a treasure-hunt, where one phrase leads to another, and that to a third, and before you know what's happened, it's time for lunch. -- Philip Pullman Brewer's head-words are so enticing and his definitions so eloquent that it's impossible to stop at one. An addiction may develop. -- Carol Rumens, The Independent 20080912
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton
- : 1.64
- : 01 August 2009
- : 252mm X 168mm X 57mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Camilla Rockwood (ed.)
- : Hardback
- : 18th Revised edition
- : English
- : 423.1
- : very good
- : 1488
- : Dictionaries; Reference works
- : Illustrations