01901nam a22002417a 4500 20251031155338.0 240917b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788119635535 AL English 428 THAW Shashi Tharoor 243409 Wonderland of Words : Around the Word in 101 Essays New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2024 442 p. HB 22x15 cm. 3641 ₹799.00 ₹ ₹999.00 20% 05-09-2024 Words are power. Words are magic. Words are fun. Words are sexy. Words can move you to tears. Words can make you laugh. And words can show you the world and everything in it with clarity and depth as few other things can. In this gloriously entertaining book, one of our greatest wordsmiths (and self-proclaimed bibliophile) Shashi Tharoor takes us on a tour of the words, concepts, and particularities that constitute the sublime (and sometimes mystifying) wonderland of the English language. He demystifies punctuation, guides us through the arcane rules of spelling and grammar, and explains a wide array of essential components of the language including acronyms, bacronyms, contronyms, oxymorons, kennings, metaphors, similes, idioms, euphemisms, palindromes, and much much more. He delves into the history and evolution of English, delights in its quirks, embraces its geographical variants, provides hilarious examples of its misuse around the world, is awed by the way in which the masters of literature use it, and revels in its beauty and grandeur. Passionate, learned, funny, and brilliantly readable, A Wonderland of Words is a book that will enchant and educate all those who delight in the English language. Non-fiction 179173 English language 179174 Essays 179175 Words 179176 ddc BK 231810 231810 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2024-09-13 Biblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014 799.00 1 428 THAW 077329 2026-02-28 2025-10-31 15:57:28 2025-10-31 999.00 2024-09-17 BK