The Meaning of Everything
- Autor: Simon Winchester
- Narrador: Simon Winchester
- Editora: HarperCollins USA
- Duração: 7:19:58
Sinopse
The Professor and the Madman,
The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa
Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries – The Oxford English Dictionary. Here the listener is presented with lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but sickly first editor Herbert Coleridge, the colorful, wildly eccentric Frederick Furnivall, and the incomparable James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent half a century as editor bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the minutiae of dictionary making, brings us to visit the unseemly corrugated iron shed that Murray grandly dubbed The Scriptorium, and introduces some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to the murderous W. C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption.
The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument erected to a living language.
Capítulos
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Chapter 001
Duração: 22min -
Chapter 002
Duração: 14min -
Chapter 003
Duração: 20min -
Chapter 004
Duração: 14min -
Chapter 005
Duração: 16min -
Chapter 006
Duração: 18min -
Chapter 007
Duração: 07min -
Chapter 008
Duração: 14min -
Chapter 009
Duração: 10min -
Chapter 010
Duração: 09min -
Chapter 011
Duração: 11min -
Chapter 012
Duração: 12min -
Chapter 013
Duração: 15min -
Chapter 014
Duração: 06min -
Chapter 015
Duração: 15min -
Chapter 016
Duração: 12min -
Chapter 017
Duração: 09min -
Chapter 018
Duração: 13min -
Chapter 019
Duração: 12min -
Chapter 020
Duração: 14min