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Simon Winchester
272 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780063341906
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Language: English
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"A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has created a vivid parable, in the spirit of Nabokov and Borges. There is much truth to be drawn from it, about Victorian pride, the relation between languag...
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Simon Winchester
272 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780063341906
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
"A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has created a vivid parable, in the spirit of Nabokov and Borges. There is much truth to be drawn from it, about Victorian pride, the relation between languag...