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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 11 times as philology)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,071 ratings — published 1998
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
by (shelved 10 times as philology)
avg rating 4.03 — 144 ratings — published 2014
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philology)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,183 ratings — published 1000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.94 — 580,802 ratings — published 1595
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,357 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 — 12,529 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,952,180 ratings — published 1925
A Guide to Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.13 — 415 ratings — published 1964
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,689 ratings — published 2000
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,833,234 ratings — published 1590
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,558 ratings — published 1994
Studies in Words (Canto)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.19 — 507 ratings — published 1939
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.71 — 377,156 ratings — published 1856
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.78 — 359,242 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,200,847 ratings — published -800
The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,577 ratings — published 1947
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,803 ratings — published 1956
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,057,913 ratings — published 1601
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,898,171 ratings — published 1890
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.93 — 512,851 ratings — published -800
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,768 ratings — published 1942
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,116 ratings — published 1981
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,354 ratings — published 1994
The Decipherment of Linear B (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.13 — 533 ratings — published 1958
Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 (Princeton Legacy Library)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1989
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.76 — 78,299 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 3.86 — 1,335 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 — 3,719 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
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.26 — 145 ratings — published 2004
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,204 ratings — published 2008
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.17 — 395 ratings — published 1943
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,194 ratings — published 1928
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,997 ratings — published 2007
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.50 — 8,963 ratings — published 2003
The Riverside Chaucer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,207 ratings — published 1986
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,576 ratings — published 1400
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,511,482 ratings — published 1948
Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.31 — 147 ratings — published 2007
The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century (European Understanding of India Series)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
The Linear B Decipherment Controversy Re-Examined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1972
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,830 ratings — published -2000
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,845 ratings — published 2025
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 192,499 ratings — published 2020
A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (English Language)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.80 — 44 ratings — published 1973
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.14 — 482,483 ratings — published 2022
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,127 ratings — published 2008
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.89 — 443 ratings — published 2024
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.86 — 183,427 ratings — published 1667
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,914 ratings — published 1621
“The world seemed quite willing to accept misunderstood artists, misunderstood thieves, and even peasants who dreamed of royalty. But nobody knew what to do with a misunderstood philologist. Other than run him out of town for bringing the dragons down on them.”
― I Hate Dragons
― I Hate Dragons
“That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be found of handling it objectively. [...] This chapter considers the applicability of the statistical tests employed by Wilson and the general problem whether the Linear B data are suited to statistical analysis.”
― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
