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Cambridge at the University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Second Edition, Early Printing. 4.75 x 7.5in. vii. 342pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the spine ever so slightly toned, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, price-clipped, otherwise remains bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
Synopsis
Language—in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings—is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analyzing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language. - C.S. Lewis
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- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 29201
- Title
- Studies in Words
- Author
- C.S. Lewis
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand
- Quantity available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge at the University Press
- Date Published
- 1967
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- spine
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