Title: Could have been written by an eminent Victorian
Product review: I wouldn't exactly say this book is gripping or enthralling. Winchester writes with a kind of distant, haughty prose which comes across as rather ... Victorian. You'll be reaching for your own dictionary more than once as you read this book.Of course, this is entirely appropriate considering the subject matter. Winchester could practically be "channeling" Professor Murray himself. The book is full of heavily researched footnotes and asides. More than once I imagined it must have taken the author a week to get the facts for a single tangential sentence.But it all goes down easy thanks to his good sense of humor. There's a lot here for word lovers, of course, but also for those with a casual interest in Victorian intellectual society.
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