Author

Seth Lerer

8 books

Books

  1. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language 2007
  2. Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter 2008
  3. History of the English Language 1998
5 more
  1. The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition 2013
  2. Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater 2013
  3. Boethius and dialogue 1985
  4. Literacy and power in Anglo-Saxon literature 1991
  5. Shakespeare's Lyric Stage 2018

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