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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 — 125,086 ratings — published 1998
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
by (shelved 11 times as philology)
avg rating 4.06 — 148 ratings — published 2014
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philology)
avg rating 3.51 — 359,174 ratings — published 950
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as philology)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,017 ratings — published 2025
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.94 — 596,745 ratings — published 1595
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,883 ratings — published 1942
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.91 — 45,192 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 — 13,047 ratings — published 2011
A Guide to Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.14 — 419 ratings — published 1964
Studies in Words (Canto)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.18 — 525 ratings — published 1939
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,652 ratings — published -750
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,840 ratings — published 1916
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.25 — 149 ratings — published 2004
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,748 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 — 4,242 ratings — published 2007
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,902,050 ratings — published 1590
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,813 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 — 1,147,376 ratings — published 1992
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.77 — 379,602 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,300,751 ratings — published -800
The Language of the Third Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,678 ratings — published 1947
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,097,446 ratings — published 1601
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.19 — 959 ratings — published 1964
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.40 — 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 4.26 — 2,185 ratings — published 1981
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,498 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 — 559 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 3.92 — 6,181,736 ratings — published 1925
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.77 — 82,514 ratings — published 1375
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 4.02 — 3,809 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 — 7,297 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 — 407 ratings — published 1943
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,270 ratings — published 1928
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.50 — 9,196 ratings — published 2003
The Riverside Chaucer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,206 ratings — published 1986
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,820,828 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 4.11 — 9 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 — 241 ratings — published 1974
In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.03 — 31 ratings — published 1989
Principles of Historical Linguistics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.21 — 29 ratings — published 1986
“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because we haven't got enough documents for the statistical approach to be wholly valid. I know you can calculate levels of probability and so forth, but to establish this really clearly we want a lot more information than we have actually got available. This is surely our major problem that we are still at the very limits at which you can use a technique of this sort. - John Chadwick”
― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
“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
