Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
6 best books like Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (E. Ward Gilman): The Monkey's Paw, Pygmalion, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, The Chicago Manual of Style, Christmas At The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, And Art, The New York Public Library Desk Reference
| Author | W.W. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1583419195 |
Classic horror tale. A family and their son Herbert are visited by an old soldier named Morris. He tells them from his time in India and shows them a mysterious talisman, the monkey's paw. According to him the owner of the paw has three wishes. Since he already had three he throw the object into the fire....
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN | 0486282228 |
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea,...
| Author | Merriam-Webster |
| ISBN | 0877798087 |
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Book With Jacket contains 225,000 clear and precise definitions along with 10,000 new words as well as more than 40,000 example sentences to better clarify meaning plus illustrate idiomatic use. 11th Edition hardcover book features a geographical section...
| Author | University of Chicago Press |
| ISBN | 0226104036 |
The 15th edition of
The Chicago Manual of Style
has been superseded by the 17th edition.
In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet,...
| Author | The New Yorker |
| ISBN | 1400061407 |
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing...
| Author | New York Public Library |
| ISBN | 0671850148 |
Cleaning my bookshelves is always dangerous because I end up wanting to sit down with every other book and get lost in it. The NYPL Desk Reference is particularly tempting. Google be damned, this book - full of all sorts of helpful &/or fascinating charts, lists, graphs, signs, symbols, useful addresses!...
