Category Archives: Books

Book Finds in Cambridge

Posted on October 13, 2017 by vanbraman

I am really jet lagged tonight, so just a quick post. For years now I have been slowly acquiring books of the Penguin Popular Classics imprint. I first started picking them up in my early trips to Germany and most … Continue reading →

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Samuel Johnson

Posted on September 18, 2017 by vanbraman

If you used Google today you may have seen an interesting doodle. Today was the 308th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson is best known for his Dictionary of the English Language. There were earlier dictionaries, but … Continue reading →

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