Burgess Unabridged: A new Dictionary of Words you Have Always Needed - Hardcover

Burgess, Gelett

9781347580134: Burgess Unabridged: A new Dictionary of Words you Have Always Needed

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ISBN 10: 1347580131 ISBN 13: 9781347580134

Publisher: Palala Press, 2015

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Review

Blurbs for "Burgess Unabridged":
" A word book any word lover will love." -- Will Shortz, crossword editor, "New York Times," and puzzlemaster, NPR
" The perfect dictionary for browsing-- the words may be unfamiliar but the things Burgess describes are universally known (and hilarious)." -- Erin McKean, American lexicographer and editor of "Verbatim: The Language Quarterly"

Blurbs for "Burgess Unabridged"
"A word book any word lover will love."--Will Shortz, crossword editor, "New York Times", and puzzlemaster, NPR
"The perfect dictionary for browsing--the words may be unfamiliar but the things Burgess describes are universally known (and hilarious)."--Erin McKean, American lexicographer and editor of "Verbatim: The Language Quarterly"

Blurbs for "Burgess Unabridged":
"A word book any word lover will love."--Will Shortz, crossword editor, "New York Times," and puzzlemaster, NPR
"The perfect dictionary for browsing--the words may be unfamiliar but the things Burgess describes are universally known (and hilarious)."--Erin McKean, American lexicographer and editor of "Verbatim: The Language Quarterly"

About the Author

Frank Gelett Burgess was born in Boston in 1866. After getting a degree from MIT in 1887, he moved to California to teach at U. Cal Berkeley. While there, and later in New York and Paris, he wrote many humorous novels, poems and stories, many of which are still in print, including Goops and How to Be Them, More Goops and How Not to Be Them, and The Purple Cow. Burgess died in 1951 in Carmel, CA.

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