Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable: 18th edition
Camilla Rockwood (ed.)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable: 18th edition
This revised and expanded edition features hundreds of new entries on everything from blogs and designer babies to New York s mysterious sewer-dwelling alligators, as well as a selection of heritage entries from a Victorian edition of Brewer’s: see “enchanted castles” , ”magic garters” and “poison detectors”.
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Non-fiction |
| Genre |
Reference |
| Format |
Hardback |
| Pages |
1584 |
| RRP |
£30.00 |
| Date of Publication |
August 2009 |
| ISBN |
978-0550104113 |
| Publisher |
Chambers Harrap |
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This revised and expanded edition features hundreds of new entries on everything from blogs and designer babies to New York s mysterious sewer-dwelling alligators, as well as a selection of heritage entries from a Victorian edition of Brewer’s: see “enchanted castles” , ”magic garters” and “poison detectors”.
Reviews
The Guardian
Steven Poole
"I had complacently imagined my millennium edition of Brewer to be good for another 1,000 years, but this latest is bigger and in most respects better... a couple of aimless browsing hours in its company brings more serendipitous delight than a week on the internet."
03/10/2009
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