A Christmas Cornucopia
Autor Mark Forsythen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 noi 2016
The perfect gift for anyone who has ever wondered about the unpredictable origins and etymologies of our Christmas customs!
For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about Christmas.
We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas, etymologically speaking, means "Go away, Christ". We're oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering her for a Christmas countdown. And we would never have guessed that the invention of crackers was merely a way of popularising sweet wrappers.
Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully entertaining wordy way.
'Witty and revelatory. Blooming brilliant' Raymond Briggs
'Everything we ever thought about Christmas is wrong! Great stuff' Matthew Parris
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241267738
ISBN-10: 0241267730
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 113 x 188 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241267730
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 113 x 188 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Born in London in 1977, Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool) was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a christening present and has never looked back. His book The Etymologicon was a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller and his TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a million views. He has also written a specially commissioned essay 'The Unknown Unknown' for Independent Booksellers Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries, and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.
Recenzii
Witty and revelatory. Blooming brilliant
Everything we ever thought about Christmas is wrong! Great stuff
Mark imparts knowledge about Christmas traditions from the essential to the (very) abstruse in wry and sardonic style. An effortless and enjoyable way to learn more about this fulcrum of our calendar
Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He also writes beautifully
This year's must-have stocking filler ... the essential addition to the library in the smallest room is Mark Forsyth's The Etymologicon.
With his casual elegance and melodious voice, Mark Forsyth has an anachronistic charm totally at odds with the 21st century (The Horologicon)
[The Etymologicon is] a perfect bit of stocking filler for the bookish member of the family, or just a cracking all-year-round-read. Highly recommended.
As good as promised - could have been thrice as long
Everything we ever thought about Christmas is wrong! Great stuff
Mark imparts knowledge about Christmas traditions from the essential to the (very) abstruse in wry and sardonic style. An effortless and enjoyable way to learn more about this fulcrum of our calendar
Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He also writes beautifully
This year's must-have stocking filler ... the essential addition to the library in the smallest room is Mark Forsyth's The Etymologicon.
With his casual elegance and melodious voice, Mark Forsyth has an anachronistic charm totally at odds with the 21st century (The Horologicon)
[The Etymologicon is] a perfect bit of stocking filler for the bookish member of the family, or just a cracking all-year-round-read. Highly recommended.
As good as promised - could have been thrice as long