“Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary”</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="“Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary”"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="“Defining,the,World,The,Extraordinary,Story,of,Dr,Johnsons,Dictionary”"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">04-01-2006</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>“Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary”</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_pXlyUB5HV66wIbkASigC_1.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Chicago, USA (Bookslut): A biography of Samuel Johnson, creator of the Oxford English Dictionary, seems low on the list of important books to read. Perhaps that is true and you should be getting to the dusty copy of War and Peace that's been sitting on the bookshelf since a rash collegiate purchase, but before you brush off any weighty tome, read Henry Hitchings's “Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary”. Your brain will thank you. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2006_01_007449.php " target="blank">www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2006_01_007449.php </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show