The Adventure of English - 500AD to 2000, The Biography of a Language - Poche

" Melvyn Bragg strides confidently through the origins and growth of English... concise as well as learned... an impressive and sage view of the big picture. " New Statesman. " Always readable, often thought-provoking, and consistently entertaining. " Independent. " Bragg's approachable account... gleams with little gems. It has power and clarity. " Sunday Herald. " Intriguing... I share Bragg's linguistic egalitarianism, his respect for dialects, his sense of the expressive richness that borrowed words bring. " The Sunday Times. " He produces a pithy, accessible narrative. " Guardian. " Told as an adventure story, and rightly so... There is much splendid intellectual firepower in this book. " Spectator