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S'està carregant… The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020)de Pip Williams
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  khage | May 15, 2023 |  The Dictionary has been at the center of Esme Nicholl's life for as long as she can remember. Her widowed father is a lexicographer, working diligently with a team of others on what will become the Oxford English Dictionary. As a young child, Esme hides under the tables in the Scriptorium, a shed in the editor's backyard where the lexicographers work. One day, a slip of paper with the word 'bondmaid' on it slips down to where Esme is sitting, and none of the workers nearby reclaim it. She slips it in her pocket. This is the first of many words that she collects over the course of her childhood and young adult years. As she grows and learns about the dictionary, she discovers that some words are excluded: words considered obscene, words without proper references, words used by people who are considered less important, like the poor. And women. Esme begins to make her own collection of words that clarify her own experiences growing up during the Women's Suffrage movement, on the cusp of the Great War. I found this to be a thoughtful and rewarding read, packed with historical detail. It wasn't a quick read, but it was an enjoyable one. It had me in tears at a couple points, and the ending is bittersweet. Recommended to readers of historical fiction. (  ) foggidawn | Mar 25, 2023 | The daughter of a lexicographer working on the original OED becomes fascinated by the language of women and of the laboring class, which is generally being excluded from the OED because it lacks the written sources common to more formal language. She decides to collect and save these words, many of them considered vulgar or obscene by the academicians guiding the project. (  ) LyndaInOregon | Mar 24, 2023 | Slow, mostly stiff characters. Why didn’t Lizzie learn to read? Almost DNF. (  ) cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 | Una novela sobre el poder del lenguaje para crear historias y descubrir la vida.La redacción del primer Diccionario Oxford contada por una joven coleccionista de palabras. Inspirándose en hechos y personajes reales, la autora ha escrito una novela inolvidable que se publica en más de treinta países y que ha entusiasmado a los lectores y a la prensa.Oxford, finales del siglo XIX. Huérfana de madre e irremediablemente curiosa, Esme crece en un mundo de palabras. Escondida debajo del escritorio de su padre, uno de los lexicógrafos del primer Diccionario Oxford, rescata las fichas de las palabras que se han extraviado o se han desechado, y que la ayudan a dar sentido al mundo. Con el tiempo, se da cuenta de que hay palabras que se consideran más importantes que otras, y que las relacionadas con las experiencias de las mujeres y de la gente corriente a menudo no se registran. Es así como decide recopilar palabras para otro diccionario: El diccionario de las palabras olvidadas, que sí refleja el lenguaje que se usa fuera del ámbito académico. bibliotecayamaguchi | Mar 15, 2023 |
[A] masterfully written, beautiful first novel that tells a fascinating story of language, love and loss. The writing is glorious; I dog-eared many pages as I read, marking passages that helped me see words in a new way. The novel you’ve been waiting for without even realizing it . . . Williams will convince you of a word’s importance in a most lovely and charismatic story. Williams provides readers with detailed background and biographical information pointing to extensive research about the [Oxford English Dictionary] and its editors, many of whom appear as characters in Esme’s life. The result is a satisfying amalgam of truth and historical fiction. A lexicographer’s dream of a novel, this is a lovely book to get lost in, an imaginative love letter to dictionaries.
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? REESE??S BOOK CLUB PICK ? ??Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.???The New York Times Book Review ??A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.???Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme??s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means ??slave girl,? begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women??s and common folks?? experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women??s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINN No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Pip Williams - The Dictionary of Lost Words: This is an exceptional treatise about the importance of inclusivity. And it so, so much more than that. #cursorybookreviews #cursoryreviews (