Author : Erzsébet Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982337295
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)
Book Synopsis Logodaedaly, Or Sleight-of-Words by : Erzsébet Gilbert
Download or read book Logodaedaly, Or Sleight-of-Words written by Erzsébet Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a "balanoid"? Who carries an "ombrifuge" into a storm? How is a "filipendulous" city destroyed? These and other fabulous questions are found inLogodædaly, or, Sleight-of-Words: a dictionary of the imagination. Within its pages, young author Erzsébet Gilbert has delved into the history of the English language to unearth a host of forgotten, quirky, obsolete and utterly bizarre words, and created a phrasebook like no other. It is a dictionary whose entries are not merely words, but the fantastical stories and wild musings behind them-a dictionary of two-headed serpents and royal assassins, warrior birds and people on the moon, specters and true love.As vividly antiquated as it is experimental, the ornately designed book features the original images-from dragons to hummingbirds-of artist Sherise Talbott, illuminations whose intricacy and style might have emerged from the museums of centuries ago. ThroughLogodaedalyone might not learn an everyday vocabulary, but beyond A and Z the reader finds that the meaning of a word is always much more than it seems.