The Meaning of Everything - The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
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Read by Simon Winchester
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Listening Length: 7 hours and 8 minutes
Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary. Here the listener is presented with lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but sickly first editor Herbert Coleridge, the colorful, wildly eccentric Frederick Furnivall, and the incomparable James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent half a century as editor bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the minutiae of dictionary making, brings us to visit the unseemly corrugated iron shed that Murray grandly dubbed The Scriptorium, and introduces some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to the murderous W. C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption.
The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument erected to a living language.
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| Creation Date: | Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:32:51 -0500 |
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
February 16th, 2015
“Writing with marvelous brio”. I wonder what that means. Dammit. If there were only a way to find out.
February 16th, 2015
related to musical mode of performance; from Italian ‘con brio’, lively.
May 31st, 2015
Thank youuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUU
May 6th, 2017
One of the best audiobooks I have ever read. I would recommend it to every listener. It is a gripping story and the listener is pulled into the world of W. C. Minor and James Murray. You will just not stop to listen it and will miss it once you complete it.
January 19th, 2019
Can somebody please seed?
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