Philology


The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
Beowulf
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Great Gatsby
A Guide to Old English
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Romeo and Juliet
Studies in Words (Canto)
Madame Bovary
Mrs. Dalloway
The Odyssey
The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Power of Babel by Michel PierssensText Structure by Nelly TinchevaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaExophony by Yōko Tawada
•Lingualish'tics
106 books — 16 voters
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxBreaking the Maya Code by Michael D. CoeThe Code Book by Simon SinghLost Languages by Andrew RobinsonThe Writing of the Gods by Edward Dolnick
Cryptolinguistics
16 books — 17 voters

The Night of the Gods by John          O'NeillBaal, St. George, and Khidr by Robert D. Miller IIThe Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel OgdenKa by Hugh CrosthwaiteThe First Ghosts by Irving Finkel
•Bottomless Antiquarium
103 books — 2 voters

Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not for nothing that one has been a philologist, perhaps one is a philologist still, that is to say, a teacher of slow reading
Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Peadar Ó Guilín
There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings. ...more
Peadar Ó Guilín, The Deserter

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