A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylv...(展开全部)

A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylv...(展开全部)

皮普·威廉姆斯 生于伦敦，长于悉尼。15岁开始写诗，现从事社会学与历史研究，并为多家媒体撰写专栏。曾与两位学者合作出版《时间炸弹》，研究澳大利亚的城市生活，以及旅游文学《意大利之夏》。目前与丈夫、两个儿子，以及各种动物居住在阿德莱德。 《丢失词词典》是皮普的第一部小说，以《牛津英语词典》的诞生为题材，从中寻绎一段被遗忘的女性历史。撰写过程中，作者数度造访牛津，亲手翻检上百份珍贵档案材料、访问词典出版人员，并以精致细腻、洋溢古典气息的笔法，娓娓道来这段横跨103年的宏伟历史。《丢失词词典》甫一出版即攻占澳大利亚图书销售榜榜首，并售出超过21国（地区）版权。 译者简介 闻若婷国文系毕业，曾任职出版社编辑，现为自由译者及校对，擅长领域为小说。译作包括《虎丘情浓》、《从前从前，在河畔》、《孤独世纪》、《看不见的图书馆》系列。

皮普·威廉姆斯 生于伦敦，长于悉尼。15岁开始写诗，现从事社会学与历史研究，并为多家媒体撰写专栏。曾与两位学者合作出版《时间炸弹》，研究澳大利亚的城市生活，以及旅游文学《意大利之夏》。目前与丈夫、两个儿子，以及各种动物居住在阿德莱德。 《丢失词词典》是皮普的第一部小说，以《牛津英语词典》的诞生为题材，从中寻绎一段被遗忘的女性历史。撰写过程中，作者数度造访牛津，亲手翻检上百份珍贵档案材料、访问词典出版人员，并以精致细腻、洋溢古典气息的笔法，娓娓道来这段横跨103年的宏伟历史。《丢失词词典》甫一出版即攻占澳大利亚图书销售榜榜首，并售出超过21国（地区）版权。 译者简介 闻若婷国文系毕业，曾任职出版社编辑，现为自由译者及校对，擅长领域为小说。译作包括《虎丘情浓》、《从前从前，在河畔》、《孤独世纪》、《看不见的图书馆》系列。

The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular sinc...(展开全部)

David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, and he received his secondary schooling at St Mary's College. He read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language st...(展开全部)

The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular sinc...(展开全部)

Words in the Mind, is all about words: how we learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the precise ones we wish to use. It also addresses the structure and content of the human word-store - the ‘mental lexicon’ - with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers. Great strides have been made in our understanding of the lexicon since the fir...(展开全部)

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-win...(展开全部)

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-win...(展开全部)