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<b>Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language</b> <br><br>Samuel Johnson's best-known work, <i>A Dictionary of the English Language</i> (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entri
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- Author
- Crystal, David;Johnson, Samuel
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.;Penguin Classics
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141441573
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Language Learning
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (82 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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