Jon PENNYCOOK reviewed The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
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2 stars
not as interesting as I had hoped - more a list of the author's favourite words, phrases, and writers from each age.
322 pages
English language
Published July 23, 2003 by Arcade Pub., Distributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group.