Advanced Learners' Dictionary

Martin Manser

ISBN 10: 1853267635 / ISBN 13: 9781853267635

Edité par WORDSWORTH EDITIONS, 1998

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

N° de réf. du vendeur 1614175/2

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Advanced Learners' Dictionary
• Éditeur: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1853267635
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781853267635
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Sehr gut

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Synopsis

`Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island. There, mutiny, murder and mayhem lead to a thrilling climax.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Wordsworth Advanced Learner's Dictionary is unique in that it combines the elements of thesaurus, usage guide, lexicon and historical survey in one volume. As well as the usual features of a dictionary, this book includes expository panels which present a point of usage, the history of the word, the area of vocabulary or the nuances of a definition. As David Crystal says of the book in his Introduction, ‘The test, quite simply, is to open it, at any page, and see if you can stop yourself browsing. I couldn't.’

The surprising origins of words and phrases such as ‘Beefeaters’ ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’ and the disease named after a shepherd in an Italian poem mean that The Wordsworth Advanced Learner's Dictionary is of enormous use to both foreign students and to those whose mother tongue is English.