{"product_id":"dictionary-of-lost-words","title":"Dictionary of Lost Words","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the \u003ci\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e went largely unheralded\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD - \"A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.\"--Geraldine Brooks, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePeople of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEsme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first\u003ci\u003e Oxford English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word \u003ci\u003ebondmaid\u003c\/i\u003e flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip, and when she learns that the word means \"slave girl,\" she begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set during the height of the women's suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the \u003ci\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e to tell this highly original story.\u003ci\u003e The Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.","brand":"Pip Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41014211739815,"sku":"9780593160190","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9780593160190-us.jpg?v=1629481630","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/dictionary-of-lost-words","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}