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The Story of English

The Story of English

By
Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum,
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
1986 • 496 pages

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The Study of Language
Word Power Made Easy
The Best Punctuation Book, Period
Morphology of the Folktale
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Power of Babel

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The Keys of Egypt
Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The mistresses of Cliveden

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Authors Language Literature

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The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
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C. S. Lewis - A Life
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Dangerous Edge of Things
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

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Nonfiction

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The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up
Secrets Never Lie: The Death of Sara Tokars--A Southern Tragedy of Money, Murder, and Innocence Betrayed
Reading "Lolita" In Tehran
The Holiness of God
American Idols: Reaching the Starbucks Generation
Love and Respect
Secrets in the Cellar: A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World

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Linguistics

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How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

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History Of English

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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Grammar and Gender
Word origins
The Story of English in 100 Words

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English Language

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The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left
Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
The Wordhord
The Mother Tongue