Melvyn Bragg

The Adventure of English

The Biography of a Language

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Produktbeschreibung

The ideal tour guide . . . both entertaining and informative. Booklist

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcade Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781611450071
• ISBN-10: 1611450071
• Artikelnr.: 33083130

Autorenporträt

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster and the author of numerous novels, including the trilogy The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, and Crossing the Lines, published by Arcade. He has won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the WHS Smith Literary Award, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Books about the King James Bible, and The Adventures of English, also published by Arcade. He lives in London and Cumbria.

Rezensionen

Melvyn Bragg's superb new history of the English language is told as an adventure story, and rightly so. There is much splendid intellectual firepower in this book. Andrew Roberts, Spectator