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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 — 124,017 ratings — published 1998
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
by (shelved 11 times as philology)
avg rating 4.04 — 146 ratings — published 2014
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philology)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,864 ratings — published 1000
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,308 ratings — published 2025
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.94 — 590,735 ratings — published 1595
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,907 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 — 12,891 ratings — published 2011
A Guide to Old English (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.14 — 416 ratings — published 1964
Studies in Words (Canto)
by (shelved 5 times as philology)
avg rating 4.18 — 523 ratings — published 1939
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,837 ratings — published 1942
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,106,015 ratings — published 1925
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.24 — 147 ratings — published 2004
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,731 ratings — published 2000
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,880,526 ratings — published 1590
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,718 ratings — published 1994
Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as philology)
avg rating 4.30 — 149 ratings — published 2007
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,107,531 ratings — published 1992
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.71 — 387,357 ratings — published 1856
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.77 — 371,930 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,261,104 ratings — published -750
The Language of the Third Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,653 ratings — published 1947
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,819 ratings — published 1956
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,084,479 ratings — published 1601
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.94 — 531,382 ratings — published -750
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.38 — 215 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 — 2,157 ratings — published 1981
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,438 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 — 547 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
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.76 — 81,377 ratings — published 1375
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,801 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 — 1,343 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 — 3,770 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 — 7,259 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 — 403 ratings — published 1943
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,237 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 4.00 — 4,147 ratings — published 2007
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 3.50 — 9,133 ratings — published 2003
The Riverside Chaucer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,202 ratings — published 1986
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philology)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,712,110 ratings — published 1949
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,390 ratings — published 1974
The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century (European Understanding of India Series) (Volume 0)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
The Linear B Decipherment Controversy Re-Examined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1972
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as philology)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,398 ratings — published 1967
“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
“Manuscripts - at least for Muslims who understand the subject - are to be read as books whose contents are to be known and understood, for that is why they were written, and not to be regarded as enigmatic specimens for critical textual and philological exercises. To them what is in the manuscripts is more important than what is on them, and so they say: Al-'ilmu fi'l-sudur la fi'l-sutur.”
― Comments on the Re-Examination of Al-Raniri's Hujjatu'l-Siddiq: A Refutation
― Comments on the Re-Examination of Al-Raniri's Hujjatu'l-Siddiq: A Refutation
