Robert McCrum
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Shakespearean
On Life and Language in Times of Disruption
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9698-1
EAN 9781509896981
When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became his 'book of life', an endless source of inspiration through ...
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Globish
How the English Language became the World's Language
- Penguin UK, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102710-4
EAN 9780141027104
What were the beginnings of the English language?Why has American culture spread so successfully and will it continue to do so even as the country's power apparently wanes?Why are the West Indies no longer any good at cricket?What difference did slavery make to the way we speak English today?Packed with nuggets of information about language, ...
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- Faber, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-27508-3
EAN 9780571275083
"The Story of English" is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. More widely scattered, ...
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