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Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869)

Autor/a de Roget's International Thesaurus

79 obres 12,605 Membres 68 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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Crèdit de la imatge: Internet Archive.

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Obres de Peter Mark Roget

Roget's International Thesaurus (1852) 3,798 exemplars
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus (1992) 1,150 exemplars
Roget's Pocket Thesaurus (1922) 756 exemplars
Roget's desk thesaurus (1996) 109 exemplars
Random House Roget's Thesaurus (1993) 96 exemplars
Roget's thesaurus of phrases (2000) 90 exemplars
Roget's descriptive word finder (2003) 79 exemplars
Roget's Children's Thesaurus (1994) 72 exemplars
Roget's university thesaurus (1963) 55 exemplars
Roget's Thesaurus 11 exemplars
Roget's A-Z thesaurus (1994) 5 exemplars
Pocket Roget's Thesaurus (2005) 4 exemplars
Roget's II notebook thesaurus (1997) 3 exemplars
Roget's for everyone thesaurus (1993) 1 exemplars

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-This is a rare book. It may be rare because there are few editions available, or it may be desirable to book collectors and sellers. However, when I say it is ""rare " I do so in the sense that it contains information which Roget compiled which is generally unavailable --especially Roget's display of the use of words in literature, in an Oxford Dictionary manner.
 
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cjneary | Hi ha 26 ressenyes més | Apr 14, 2024 |
based on R's international thesaurus
 
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SrMaryLea | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Aug 22, 2023 |
This has been my companion through long hours of writing growing up, and often substituted for a dictionary during long hours of reading. My mom trusted it in her high school and college years. It's a trusted book and has handled years of use well. Even now that it's convenient to use computers for everything reference oriented, I still occasionally keep away from screens and fall back on my old text companions like this book.
 
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leah_markum | Oct 28, 2022 |
Had this Book Club Associates' edition forwarded to me soon after its publication in 1973 when I was living in Scandinavia, short on Markka & pretending to be a budding author. It was an invaluable tool - to find that ultimate keyword your mind has let slip - and has continued to be every year since then although my oeuvre remains perilously slim!
A Thesaurus's role is to complement, not replace the inestimable Dictionary: as R.A. Dutch states in the preface (1962), "It furnishes no labels for 'speech level', for what is scholarly, literary or vulgar, or archaic and obsolete" (and certainly this Edition along with me is bordering on that last vestige of practical usefulness that was my ambition and is now for youthful aspiring writers).… (més)
 
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tommi180744 | Hi ha 15 ressenyes més | Jun 4, 2022 |

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Obres
79
Membres
12,605
Popularitat
#1,855
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
68
ISBN
260
Llengües
1
Preferit
1

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