The Story of English

Resumen del libro

"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, written and spoken than any other language in history, English has become a global phenomenon.

Biografía del autor

Robert McCrum es escritor; su libro anterior, Shakespearean, se publicó con gran éxito en 2021. También es autor de The Story of English (1986), Wodehouse: A Life (2004) y sus ya clásicas memorias, My Year Off. Cuando era editor jefe de Faber x{0026} Faber publicó, entre otros autores, a Paul Auster, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marilynne Robinson, Lorrie Moore, Hanif Kureishi y Milan Kundera. Posteriormente fue editor literario de The Observer entre 1996 y 2008.