English Language


The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Elements of Style
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Stories of English
Pride and Prejudice
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
1984
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
The Story of English in 100 Words
Christopher Hitchens
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