The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

"Superb. . . . Inspiring."--Newsday. "A captivating history."--The Daily Telegraph. "A thorough and incredibly enjoyable trip down...
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Language: English
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Bragg, Melvyn

The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

¥3,381

The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

¥3,381
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"Superb. . . . Inspiring."--Newsday. "A captivating history."--The Daily Telegraph. "A thorough and incredibly enjoyable trip down a linguistic memory lane."--Bloomsbury Review

Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full of jealousy, intrigue, and war--against a hoard of invaders, all armed with their own conquering languages, which bit by bit, the speakers of English absorbed and made their own.

Along the way, its colorful story takes in a host of remarkable people, places, and events: the Norman invasion of England in 1066; the arrival of The Canterbury Tales and a "coarse" playwright named William Shakespeare, who added 2,000 words to the language; the songs of slaves; the words of Davy Crockett; and the Lewis and Clark expedition, which led to hundreds of new words as the explorers discovered unknown flora and fauna.

The Adventure of English is an enthralling story not only of power, religion, and trade, but also of a people and how they changed the world.

Author: Melvyn Bragg
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781611450071

About the Author
Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster and the author of numerous novels, including the trilogy The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, and Crossing the Lines, published by Arcade. He has won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the WHS Smith Literary Award, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Books about the King James Bible, and The Adventures of English, also published by Arcade. He lives in London and Cumbria.

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