num_pages: 429
description: Esteemed poet translator critic and author of children's books John Ciardi devoted a good part of his later literary career to the word rambles that collected in his Browser's Dictionaries take us on a wonderfully winding path through the landscape of language. His three compendiums of curious expressions and intriguing facts are enlivened by a reader's inquisitiveness and a writer's ingenuity. In these pages you'll discover the bitter herb at the root of sardonic the Biblical fly in the ointment what provides the pleasure in happy as a clam and hundreds of other insights into our linguistic heritage. Also available in Common Reader Editions : A Second Browser's Dictionary and A Third Browser's Dictionary.
language: None
title: A Browser's Dictionary
publisher: Not Avail