Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
131 books
Reference
542
Samuel Johnson - Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s. ($400?). It would be years before «Johnson's...
2 hours 22 minutes
*Non-fiction
502
W. E. Hutchinson - Byways Around San Francisco Bay
California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-giving air, invites the lover of nature to take long tramps over hill and...
2 hours 5 minutes
Humorous Fiction
651
Charles Wayland Towne - Foolish Dictionary
«The Foolish Dictionary» was written by «Gideon Wurdz» (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 1904. According to the beginning of the book, it is «An exhausting work of reference to un-certain...
1 hour 45 minutes
