The Dictionary of Lost Words

Pip Williams

earliest edition we have, 2021 Random House Publishing Group, 2022

Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She...

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Dictionary of Lost Words edition · 2022 · Penguin Random House · 336 pages · 9781529113228
Dictionary of Lost Words edition · 2022 · Random House Publishing Group · 9781984820747
Dictionary of Lost Words edition · 2021 · Penguin Random House · 9781473580282
The Dictionary of Lost Words hardcover · 2021 · Ballantine Books · 400 pages · 9780593160190
Dictionary of Lost Words edition · 2021 · Penguin Random House · 9781784743864

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