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001			on1154952908
003			OCoLC
005			20210428111356.0
008			200424s2021 nyua 000 1 eng
010			_a 2020019157
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dBDX _dYDX _dMJ8 _dOCLCO _dWC4 _dOCLCO _dILC _dFSP _dTCH _dOI6 _dGL4 _dYU6 _dVP@ _dOCLCO _dNFG
019			_a1242943637
020			_a9780593160190 _q(hardcover ; _qacid-free paper)
020			_a0593160193
035			_a(OCoLC)1154952908 _z(OCoLC)1242943637
042			_apcc
092			_aWILLIAMS _bPIP
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aWilliams, Pip, _d1969- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe dictionary of lost words : _ba novel / _cPip Williams.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2102
264		1	_aNew York : _bBallantine Group, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2020 [text]
264		4	_c©2021 [map]
300			_axiv, 376 pages : _billustration ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2020." -- Verso.
520			_a"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and mine to sit on his lap, like a queen on her throne, and help him ease each word out of its folded cradle. He'd tell me what pile to put it on and sometimes he'd pause, cover my hand with his, and guide my finger up and down and around the letters, sounding them into my ear. He'd say the word, and I would echo it, then he'd tell me what it meant"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_aMotherless, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip, and is told that the word means "slave girl." Learning that words relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded, Esme begins to collect other words discarded by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. -- adapted from jacket
630	0	0	_aNew English dictionary on historical principles _vFiction.
650		0	_aLexicographers _vFiction. _9136514
630	0	0	_aOxford English dictionary _vFiction.
650		0	_aReading _vFiction. _964585
650		0	_aFathers and daughters _vFiction. _938928
655		7	_aBiographical fiction. _2lcgft _9682
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c329676 _d329676