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A Place For Everything: the Curious History Of alphabetical Order
[Paperback - 2021]
judith flanders
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Category: Linguistics
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Additional Category: General History
Publisher: Picador Uk | ISBN: 9781509881581 | Pages: 368
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A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

About the Author

Judith Flanders was born in London, England, in 1959. She moved to Montreal, Canada, when she was two, and spent her childhood there, apart from a year in Israel in 1972, where she signally failed to master Hebrew.After university, Judith returned to London and began working as an editor for various publishing houses. After this 17-year misstep, she began to write and in 2001 her first book, A Circle of Sisters, the biography of four Victorian sisters, was published to great acclaim, and nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. In 2003, The Victorian House (2004 in the USA, as Inside the Victorian Home) received widespread praise, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. In 2006 Consuming Passions, was published. Her most recent book, The Invention of Murder, was published in 2011.Judith also contributes articles, features and reviews for a number of newspapers and magazines.