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ISBN: 9780330457118 - My Year Off My Year Off
McCrum, Robert

ISBN10: 9780330539494  ISBN13: 9780330539494
Publisher: Picador
Format: Electronic Book
'When I was just forty-two I suffered a severe stroke. Paralysed on my left side and unable to walk, I was confined to hospital for three months, then spent about a year recovering, slowly getting myself back into the world. When I was... More

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ISBN: 9780142002315 - The Story of English The Story of English
McCrum, Robert

ISBN10: 0142002313  ISBN13: 9780142002315
Publisher: Penguin Books PENGUIN GROUP
Edition: 0003 Revised
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Dec 2002
Written for general readers, The Story of English presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English - from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of... More

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ISBN: 9780393051599 - Wodehouse: A Life Wodehouse: A Life
McCrum, Robert

ISBN10: 0393051595  ISBN13: 9780393051599
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company W W NORTON & CO INC
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2004
P. G. Wodehouse is a comic writer of genius best known for Bertie Wooster and his omniscient manservant Jeeves: the pig-loving peer Lord Emsworth - and a regiment of aunts and butlers. But although Wodehouse and his work have become indissolubly... More

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ISBN: 9780571210770 - The Story of English The Story of English
Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil, William Cran

ISBN10: 0571210775  ISBN13: 9780571210770
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Jan 2002
This work charts the tale of a language that came from nowhere to conquer the world. It is an introduction for both student and general reader alike. More

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ISBN: 9780141027104 - Globish Globish
Robert McCrum

ISBN10: 014102710X  ISBN13: 9780141027104
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 May 2011
Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not be the Queen's English that you're hearing, but it is a form of universally recognised English. This title explores the history of English and ponders why... More

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ISBN: 9780393327519 - Wodehouse Wodehouse
Robert McCrum

ISBN10: 0393327515  ISBN13: 9780393327519
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Edition: Re-issue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Aug 2010
He had an extraordinary Broadway career, wrote 90 novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves and the Empress of Blandings. McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life. More

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ISBN: 9780571275083 - The Story of English The Story of English
Robert McCrum

ISBN10: 0571275087  ISBN13: 9780571275083
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 May 2011
Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; and now, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. This title offers a tale of the origins and... More

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ISBN: 9780330457118 - My Year Off My Year Off
Robert McCrum

ISBN10: 033045711X  ISBN13: 9780330457118
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Picador
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 May 2008
An essential, compassionate book for all stroke victims and their families, with a new introduction from the author 'When I was just forty-two I suffered a severe stroke. Paralysed on my left side and unable to walk, I was confined to hospital for... More

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ISBN: 9780393339772 - Globish Globish
Robert McCrum

ISBN10: 0393339777  ISBN13: 9780393339772
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 13 May 2011
A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future. Bloomsbury Review It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors... More

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ISBN: 9780393062557 - Globish Globish
Robert McCrum

ISBN10: 0393062554  ISBN13: 9780393062557
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Jun 2010
"Robert McCrum argues, brilliantly and provocatively, that England's greatest contribution to the world is English. The empire may be gone But Globish explains why the language still rules.""For as long as P. G. Wodehouse is read, this will be the... More