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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.

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984 pages
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Franklin Classics
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14 October 2018
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15.6 x 4.93 x 23.39 cm
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0343132702
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978-0343132705
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Franklin Classics (14 October 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 984 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0343132702
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0343132705
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 4.93 x 23.39 cm

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Simon Esposito

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Reviewed in Australia on 5 November 2015

WATCH OUT: $220 gets you a shoddy OCR copy of an early edition of Brewer's dictionary, which you can see or download in original form for free on Internet Archive.

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Reviewed in France on 30 January 2012

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C'est une sorte de dictionnaire encyclopédique de la culture britannique qui peut avoir son utilité. Pas très encombrant par son format une vingtaine de cm de hauteur sur une quinzaine et 4-5 cm de tranche. Il y a de tout de a à z : des citations littéraires et latines et des surnoms de gens et de lieux, des mots communs... références à l'histoire à la culture assez intéressantes pour un esprit curieux. Peut servir à ceux qui ont fait l'impasse sur la Civilisation dans l'apprentissage des langues et risquent de se fourvoyer dans les interprétations, en lisant ou en traduisant. Amusant. A acheter d'occasion pour ne pas se ruiner car ne se périme pas et pouvoir le feuilleter comme un roman de temps en temps.

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The kindle form is the worst, it is full of mistakes. Please don't buy this book.

William B.

This "Classic Edition" is quite good, although abridged

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The full version of this edition of Brewer's is available free online (public domain), and in PDF format comes in at well over 900 pages (I believe close to 1,000). This abridged print edition has 876 pages. I cannot determine who edited this version, and no date of publication for the original full material can be found (in the online or this print edition), but it was no earlier than 1951, and no later than 1971. I established this because I quickly found a 1951 date for an event in the past tense in the book, but Memorial Day is not listed as the last Monday in May, and that was established by federal law in 1971.

Every entry I checked in the print version is an exact copy of what you'll find in the public domain PDF version, but I found several entries in the PDF which are not in this print version. Still, it's a lot of fun, as well as educational. Soon I'll buy one of the more recent editions (at this time the current edition is the 17th, published in the last 2-3 years) and compare the 2; this will likely produce hours of pleasureful geekitude.

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There is no substitute for this book other than newer editions of it

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I do not expect to like one hundred percent of each book I purchase, nor do I read the entire book; however, a book like this is a good reference/search source. I give it five stars for what the book accomplished, not for what I did not find.

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