The Dictionary of Lost Words

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• Pip Williams

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• 432 pagine
• 16 ore di lettura

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Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word 'bondmaid' flutter to the floor unclaimed

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2021

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