The Dictionary Of Love

Author : John Stark
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062043412

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In its more than three hundred pages, The Dictionary of Love gets to the heart of the matter: To rusticate is to get out of town with one's lover. A ballabust is a controlling wife or girlfriend. Bob Hope had the longest Hollywood marriage. Kinkalicious is your girlfriend in a teddy. Tahiti is an island where lovers do the 'upa'upa. From "afterglow" to "zipper," "Ikea" to "Twister," The Dictionary of Love is chockablock with everything you ever wanted to know about love but couldn't find in your Funk & Wagnalls. The book draws from all areas of life: love songs, poems, history, law books, sex manuals, medical and psychology texts, folklore, modern science, cookbooks, classical literature, Internet dating sites, TV shows, and today's slang. What famous people best define love? According to The Dictionary of Love, they include Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Bill Clinton, Casanova, Lana Turner, Nefertiti, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Don Quixote, Ben & Jerry—even Flipper and Lassie! Included, too, are charts, graphs, and illustrations, plus a G-spot directional map for women to give their boyfriend or lover. An indispensable tool for anyone who is composing a love sonnet, breaking up over e-mail, writing a romance novel, planning a romantic getaway, or just looking for something juicy to whisper in their lover's ear, The Dictionary of Love is a first-of-its-kind compendium of all things amorous.

Author : David Levithan
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Theocritus Junior
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781410103147

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The Dictionary of Love by Theocritus Junior Pdf

Definitions of all the terms used in the history of the tender passion, with rare quotations from the ancient and modern poets, plus specimens of curious model love letters, and many other interesting matters about love.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HNEZZ9

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An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Love
ISBN : BL:A0019422417

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The Dictionary of Love by John Cleland Pdf

Author : Eley Williams
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : bell hooks
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780062862174

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All About Love by bell hooks Pdf

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1754
Category : Love
ISBN : OCLC:509369849

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The Dictionary of Love by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xiaolu Guo
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307455635

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo Pdf

From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West—and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang—or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who changes everything, leading her into a world of self-discovery. She soon realizes that, in the West, “love” does not always mean the same as in China, and that you can learn all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover. And as the novel progresses with steadily improving grammar and vocabulary, Z's evolving voice makes her quest for comprehension all the more poignant. With sparkling wit, Xiaolu Guo has created an utterly original novel about identity and the cultural divide.

Author : Harryette Mullen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520927834

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Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen Pdf

Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

Author : Charles Martel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 18??
Category : Love
ISBN : OCLC:58728492

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A Dictionary of Love by Charles Martel Pdf

Author : DICTIONARY.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024984362

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The Dictionary of Love. In which is contained, the explanation of most of the terms used in that language, Based on the "Dictionnaire d'amour" of J. F. Dreux du Radier." by DICTIONARY. Pdf

Author : John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017895489

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The Dictionary of Love, in which is Contained the Explanation of Most of the Terms Used in that Language. By J. Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Pdf

Author : Mark Morton
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781897415931

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Cupboard Love 2 by Mark Morton Pdf

Cupboard Love explores the fascinating stories behind familiar and no-so-familiar gastronomic terms. Who knew that the word pomegranate is related to the word grenade? Light-hearted and thoroughly researched, packed with linguistic lore and cultural trivia.