The document summarizes the novel "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams. It describes how the book is based on the creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary. It tells of a young girl named Esme who helps compile words for the dictionary but decides to make her own dictionary focused on words that describe women's experiences which were being left out of the official dictionary. The summary provides key details about the plot and premise of the novel in a concise manner.

2. TELECHARGER EN LIGNE/ The Dictionary of
Lost Words
Author : Pip Williams Pages : 400 pages
Publisher : Ballantine Books Language : ISBN-
10 : 54814839-the-dictionary-of-lost-words
ISBN-13 : 9780593160190

3. Books Excerpt
In this remarkable debut based on actual
events, as a team of male scholars compiles
the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of
their daughters decides to collect the
"objectionable" words they omit.Esme 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 Oxford English Dictionary.
Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting
table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of
paper containing the word "bondmaid" flutters
to the floor. She rescues the slip, and when
she learns that the word means slave-girl, she
withholds it from the OED and begins to
collect words that show women in a more
positive light.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 .
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Books Details
Author : Pip Williams
Pages : 400 pages
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Language :
ISBN-10 : 54814839-the-dictionary-of-lost-
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ISBN-13 : 9780593160190
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