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DEBUT NOVEL Williams's (Attrib. and Other Stories) first novel offers up a delicious love letter to language that readers of a sympathetic palate will devour. Following a Dorian Gray-like prolog of insights about dictionaries and the people who love them, the novel alternates between two London-based lexicographers a century apart. Back in 1899, the hapless Peter Winceworth toils away at Swansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary in bored anonymity, speaking with an affected lisp and infatuated with the fiancée of his coworker and arch...Log In or Sign Up to Read More