Henry Hitchings

Henry Hitchings
Jerry Bauer

Henry Hitchings was born in 1974. He is the author of The Secret Life of Words, Who’s Afraid of Jane Austen?, and Defining the World. He has con­tributed to many newspapers and magazines and is the theater critic for the London Evening Standard.


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The Language Wars
The Language Wars

Henry Hitchings
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about...


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The Secret Life of Words
The Secret Life of Words

Henry Hitchings
Picador

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the...


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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson

Christopher Hibbert; Foreword by Henry Hitchings
Palgrave Macmillan

Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look at the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and...


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Defining the World
Defining the World

Henry Hitchings
Picador

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first comprehensive English...


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