Short Stories From The Dictionary

Author : Jez Burrows
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062652621

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Dictionary Stories by Jez Burrows Pdf

"Dictionary Stories isn’t just a book for word nerds, but for anyone for whom language and story matter. Everybody will find themselves thoroughly in love with this book." —Kory Stamper, editor for Merriam-Webster, and author of Word by Word Everyone has looked up a word in the dictionary. Some of us have even asked for it to be used in a sentence during our 2nd grade spelling bee. But few of us have ever really considered those example sentences: where they come from, how they’re generated…and why in heaven’s name they are so darn weird. Jez Burrows opened the New Oxford American Dictionary and sat, mystified. Instead of the definition of "study" he was looking for, he found himself drawn to the strangely conspicuous, curiously melodramatic sentence that followed it: "He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery." It read like a tiny piece of fiction on the lam and hiding out in the dictionary—and it wasn’t alone. Was it possible to reunite these fugitive fictions? To combine and remix example sentences to form new works? With this spark and a handful of stories shared online, Dictionary Stories was born. This genre-bending and wildly inventive collection glows with humor, emotion, and intellect. Effortlessly transcending sentence level, Burrows lights between the profound and the absurd, transporting readers into moments, worlds, and experiences of remarkable variety. Featuring original illustrations by the author, Dictionary Stories is a giddy celebration of the beauty and flexibility of language.

Author : Arthur Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105427470

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Short Stories from the Dictionary by Arthur Gilman Pdf

Author : Arthur Gilman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0259463337

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Short Stories from the Dictionary (Classic Reprint) by Arthur Gilman Pdf

Excerpt from Short Stories From the Dictionary After you have got through the prefaces, you will come to a memoir of Noah Webster, by Professor Goodrich, that is not so interesting as the one by Mr. Scudder, of which I have told you, but is still worth reading. Next you have a History of the English language, by Professor Hadley, who was one of the most learned scholars that we have ever had in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Arthur Gilman
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356920780

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Short Stories from the Dictionary by Arthur Gilman Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Eley Williams
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281509

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The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams Pdf

“You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent, chronicling the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman who decodes his trail of made-up words a century later. Will enthrall readers of CS Richardson, Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Mountweazel (n.), the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Increasingly uneasy that his colleagues are attempting to corral language and regiment facts, Winceworth feels compelled to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom, and begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries into the dictionary. In the present day, Mallory, a young intern employed by the publisher, must uncover these mountweazels before the work is digitized for modern readers. Through the words and their definitions, she begins to sense their creator’s motivations, hopes and desires. More pressingly, she also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. Is the change in the definition of marriage (n.) really that controversial? And does the caller truly intend for the Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell”? As these two narratives combine, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of the often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable path we call life. An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.

Author : Cary Fagan
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1771473231

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Maurice and His Dictionary by Cary Fagan Pdf

A graphic novel that tells a refugee story about education and hope

Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984820730

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The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Pdf

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. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

Author : David Levithan
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429994309

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The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan Pdf

How does one talk about love? Is it even possible to describe something at once utterly mundane and wholly transcendent, that has the power to consume our lives completely, while making us feel part of something infinitely larger than ourselves? Taking a unique approach to this age-old problem, the nameless narrator of David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary constructs the story of a relationship as a dictionary. Through these sharp entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of coupledom, giving us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.

Author : James Pickering
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0131054546

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Fiction 100, an Anthology of Short Stories and NAW Dictionary Package by James Pickering Pdf

Author : Laurie Henry
Publisher : Penguin Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1884910548

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The Fiction Dictionary by Laurie Henry Pdf

Covers all the relevant terms, past and present, in the language of fiction and fiction writing. Gives full descriptions of terms and uses examples from classic and contemporary fiction to illustrate the terms in play.

Author : Oliver Jeffers,Sam Winston
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536235504

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The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers,Sam Winston Pdf

The much-anticipated new picture book from the best-selling, award-winning creators of A Child of Books. Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books. So one day, she decides to bring her words to life. How exciting it is to finally have an adventure on her very own pages! But what will she do when her characters collide and everything gets all in a jumble, causing the most enormous tantrum to explode? This isn't what she wanted at all! Luckily her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary's pages once again.

Author : David Malcolm,Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405145374

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A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story by David Malcolm,Cheryl Alexander Malcolm Pdf

A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192805762

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The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester Pdf

"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Author : James Pickering
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0131433962

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Fiction 100, an Anthology of Short Stories and NAW Dictionary and Thesaurus Package by James Pickering Pdf

Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781101970263

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Word by Word by Kory Stamper Pdf

“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.