Taking a page from a character’s project in a Bulwer Lytton novel, the author, a distinguished Victorian man of letters, presents an amusing compendium of errata, misprints, misquotations, mistranslations, imaginings, absurd etymologies, faulty classifications, abuses of upper and lower case, ludicrous student answers to exams, hotel-keepers’ English, and more.
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About the author
Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917) was a British author, indexer, and editor. He served as the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts, and the President of both the Samuel Pepys Club and the Bibliographical Society. His works include The Bibliographer (1884), What is an Index? (1878), and Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In (1889).
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 244 ● ISBN 9781411455436 ● File size 2.0 MB ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5863971 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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