Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, David Crystal and Ben CrystalThis book is for people who love Shakespeare, or love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, with his actor son, Ben, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and meanings. They have included every word which presents the reader with a difficulty arising out of the differences between Elizabethan and Modern

taking comfort in Andre

In the years following World War II

I'm an alcoholic

she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast

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' - "The Times"

It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers

A timeless and gripping portrait of regret

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection

'Exceptional' (Financial Times)

and endlessly inventive

This electrifying new book thrives on revealing