A Wonderland of Words: Around the Word in 101 Essays

By:

Tharoor Shashi

Publication details: Aleph Book Company 2024 IndiaDescription: 470ISBN:

9788119635535

DDC classification:

658 THA

Summary: Words are power. Words are magic. Words are fun. Words are sexy. Words can move you to tears. Words can make you laugh. And words can show you the world and everything in it with clarity and depth as few other things can. In this gloriously entertaining book, one of our greatest wordsmiths (and self-proclaimed bibliophile) Shashi Tharoor takes us on a tour of the words, concepts, and particularities that constitute the sublime (and sometimes mystifying) wonderland of the English language. He demystifies punctuation, guides us through the arcane rules of spelling and grammar, and explains a wide array of essential components of the language including acronyms, bacronyms, contronyms, oxymorons, kennings, metaphors, similes, idioms, euphemisms, palindromes, and much much more. He delves into the history and evolution of English, delights in its quirks, embraces its geographical variants, provides hilarious examples of its misuse around the world, is awed by the way in which the masters of literature use it, and revels in its beauty and grandeur. Passionate, learned, funny, and brilliantly readable, A Wonderland of Words is a book that will enchant and educate all those who delight in the English language. SHASHI THAROOR is the bestselling author of twenty-six books, both fiction and non-fiction. His latest books are The Less You Preach, The More You Learn (co-authored with Joseph Zacharias), Ambedkar: A Life, and Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor. He is a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development, and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. In his fourth term, he is the longest-serving member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram and has chaired Parliament’s Standing Committees on External Affairs and on Information Technology. He has won numerous literary awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Books (non-fiction), Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. Source: https://www.amazon.in/Wonderland-Words-Around-Word-Essays/dp/8119635531/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OO3DW3J9TFQQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.go1NXP9O4PwrS5hc6m5Gng.qRV2JS8J3AjYVglJbheoy4fm6pkj4UPH3XknNtw1S0s&dib_tag=se&keywords=9788119635535&qid=1731050645&s=books&sprefix=9789389328509%2Cstripbooks%2C224&sr=1-1

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Words are power. Words are magic. Words are fun. Words are sexy. Words can move you to tears. Words can make you laugh. And words can show you the world and everything in it with clarity and depth as few other things can. In this gloriously entertaining book, one of our greatest wordsmiths (and self-proclaimed bibliophile) Shashi Tharoor takes us on a tour of the words, concepts, and particularities that constitute the sublime (and sometimes mystifying) wonderland of the English language.
He demystifies punctuation, guides us through the arcane rules of spelling and grammar, and explains a wide array of essential components of the language including acronyms, bacronyms, contronyms, oxymorons, kennings, metaphors, similes, idioms, euphemisms, palindromes, and much much more. He delves into the history and evolution of English, delights in its quirks, embraces its geographical variants, provides hilarious examples of its misuse around the world, is awed by the way in which the masters of literature use it, and revels in its beauty and grandeur. Passionate, learned, funny, and brilliantly readable, A Wonderland of Words is a book that will enchant and educate all those who delight in the English language.

SHASHI THAROOR is the bestselling author of twenty-six books, both fiction and non-fiction. His latest books are The Less You Preach, The More You Learn (co-authored with Joseph Zacharias), Ambedkar: A Life, and Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor.

He is a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development, and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. In his fourth term, he is the longest-serving member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram and has chaired Parliament’s Standing Committees on External Affairs and on Information Technology. He has won numerous literary awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Books (non-fiction), Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award.

Source: https://www.amazon.in/Wonderland-Words-Around-Word-Essays/dp/8119635531/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OO3DW3J9TFQQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.go1NXP9O4PwrS5hc6m5Gng.qRV2JS8J3AjYVglJbheoy4fm6pkj4UPH3XknNtw1S0s&dib_tag=se&keywords=9788119635535&qid=1731050645&s=books&sprefix=9789389328509%2Cstripbooks%2C224&sr=1-1

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