
Mother Tongue
the english language
$14.07
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2008
Summary
A Celebration of the World’s Most Beloved Language
Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue is a captivating exploration of the English language. It delves into the fascinating story of how a once-unremarkable tongue rose to become the dominant language worldwide. Bryson takes readers on a journey from America to Australia, examining diverse aspects of English, including its quirks, evolution, and eccentricities like swearing, spelling, spoonerisms, and even Scrabble. This book is a mus…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780141037462 |
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ISBN-10: | 0141037466 |
Series: | Popular Penguins |
Author: | Bill Bryson |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 288 |
Release Date: | 31 August 2008 |
Weight: | 160g |
Dimensions: | 181mm x 111mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson’s bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. Another travel book, A Walk in the Woods, has become a major film starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson. His new number one Sunday Times bestseller is The Road to Little Dribbling- More Notes from a Small Island.
His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Royal Society’s Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, on history, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestsellers were At Home- a Short History of Private Life, and One Summer- America 1927
Bill Bryson was born in the American Midwest, and now lives in the UK. A former Chancellor of Durham University, he was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England for five years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bill Bryson was born in 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up there, but spent most of his adult life in Britain. He worked for the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Financial Weekly and The Times.
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