Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky
Tom McArthur Book order (chronological)






Dictionary of English Phrasal Verbs and Their Idioms
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Understanding Yoga
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
The Written Word. A Course in Controlled Composition. Book 1
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English
- 928 pages
- 33 hours of reading
Designed to help students of English to increase their vocabulary, this contains over 15,000 entries covering 130 topics, from life and animals to war and peace. It brings together words with related meanings and lists them in sets to show the differences and similarities between them.

