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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray
Category: Biography | Series: Nota Bene Ser.
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written ...Show more
Madwoman in the Attic by GILBERT SANDRA M GUBAR SUSAN
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Nota Bene Ser.
"A feminist classic."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review "A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that s ...Show more
The Gentleman's Daughter - Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
Category: History | Series: Yale Nota Bene Ser.
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the scope of female experience did not diminis ...Show more
Walden (Yale University Edition) by Henry D. Thoreau
Category: Culture | Series: Nota Bene Ser.
This handsome, affordable paperback edition of Walden is the most authoritative version of Thoreau
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