The Dictionary of Lost Words
Unknown
Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Unknown
—· 528 p
reflective
Overview
About
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing th…
Pages
528
unknown publisher
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Lexicographic Theme10
Prose9
Historical Atmosphere9
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Worldbuilding7
Pacing6
Plot twists4
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