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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as philology)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,548 ratings — published 1998
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
by (shelved 11 times as philology)
avg rating 4.05 — 148 ratings — published 2014
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philology)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,121 ratings — published 950
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as philology)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,697 ratings — published 2025
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,287 ratings — published 1595
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,863 ratings — published 1942
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,060 ratings — published 1990
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,983 ratings — published 2011
A Guide to Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.14 — 417 ratings — published 1964
Studies in Words (Canto)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.18 — 524 ratings — published 1939
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.25 — 148 ratings — published 2004
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,740 ratings — published 2000
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,196 ratings — published 2007
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,892,703 ratings — published 1590
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,760 ratings — published 1994
Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.30 — 152 ratings — published 2007
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,126,917 ratings — published 1992
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.71 — 390,303 ratings — published 1856
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.77 — 375,517 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,287,623 ratings — published -800
The Language of the Third Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,667 ratings — published 1947
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,826 ratings — published 1956
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,091,629 ratings — published 1601
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,814 ratings — published -750
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.19 — 956 ratings — published 1964
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.38 — 216 ratings — published 1948
The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,175 ratings — published 1981
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,463 ratings — published 1994
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 125 ratings — published 2006
The Decipherment of Linear B (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.13 — 551 ratings — published 1958
The Greek Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.23 — 26 ratings — published 1996
Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 (Princeton Legacy Library)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1989
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis (Oxford-Warburg Studies)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 1983
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,147,672 ratings — published 1925
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.77 — 81,849 ratings — published 1375
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,815 ratings — published 1916
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,351 ratings — published 2006
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,790 ratings — published 2013
Kadmos: Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgreichische Epigraphik (Kadmos, XXIX.2)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 1990
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,282 ratings — published 2008
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.16 — 405 ratings — published 1943
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,252 ratings — published 1928
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.50 — 9,169 ratings — published 2003
The Riverside Chaucer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,199 ratings — published 1986
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,771,295 ratings — published 1949
The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2023
Textual Criticism & Editorial Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.88 — 24 ratings — published 1973
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,390 ratings — published 1974
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.89 — 238 ratings — published 1974
“Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.”
― The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
― The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
“I get sickthinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was”
― The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex
― The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex
