An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition Tapa blanda - 1993
de James Lipton
For word lovers everywhere, a classic anthology of collective nouns--now vastly expanded and with a new introduction. Infectious in spirit, beautifully illustrated with over 250 witty engravings by Granville, Durer, and other artists, this work is a word lover's garden of delights.
Resumen
An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards," a "parliament of owls," an "ostentation of peacocks," a "smack of jellyfish," and a "murder of crows"! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided the definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, and often poetic, terms unearthed by Mr. Lipton in the Books of Venery that were the constant study of anyone who aspired to the title of gentleman in the fifteenth century. When Mr. Lipton's painstaking research revealed that five hundred years ago the terms of venery had already been turned into the Game of Venery, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a "slouch of models," a "shrivel of critics," an "unction of undertakers," a "blur of Impressionists," a "score of bachelors," and a "pocket of quarterbacks." This ultimate edition of An Exaltation of Larks is Mr. Lipton's brilliant answer to the assault on language and literacy in the last decades of the twentieth century. In it you will find more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that most endangered of all species, our language, in a setting of 250 witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt engravings.
Primera línea
Most introductory chapters are written in the well-grounded expectation that they will be blithely ignored.
Descripción de contraportada
An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards", a "parliament of owls", an "ostentation of peacocks", a "smack of jellyfish", and a "murder of crows"! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided the definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, and often poetic, terms unearthed by Mr. Lipton in the Books of Venery that were the constant study of anyone who aspired to the title of gentleman in the fifteenth century. When Mr. Lipton's painstaking research revealed that five hundred years ago the terms of venery had already been turned into the Game of Venery, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a "slouch of models", a "shrivel of critics", an "unction of undertakers", a "blur of Impressionists", a "score of bachelors", and a "pocket of quarterbacks". This ultimate edition of An Exaltation of Larks is Mr. Lipton's brilliant answer to the assault on language and literacy in the last decades of the twentieth century. In it you will find more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that most endangered of all species, our language, in a setting of 250 witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt engravings.
Detalles
- Título An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition
- Autor James Lipton
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 336
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 1993-11-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780140170962 / 0140170960
- Peso 0.93 libras (0.42 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.28 x 6.11 x 0.87 pulgadas (23.57 x 15.52 x 2.21 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects English language - Terms and phrases
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 90050425
- Dewey Decimal Code 428.1
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