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The King’s English

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Collins Spanish Dictionary

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If Descriptionary by Marc McCutcheon is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Thesauri, Word Lists, Rhetoric and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Pbk, Julia Cresswell, Ian Brookes, Robert Hartwell Fiske, and others.