A new edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's original and best known thesaurus. Revised and updated to include the latest usage, it also has a reworked layout using panels to highlight areas such as the signs of the zodiac or familiar quotations that have become part of our everyday language.Also contains the introductions to the earlier editions plus some facsimile pages of the 1st edition. Dust jacket is is in very good condition. Black exterior with title on spine in gold. The interior is clean, apart from a few brown specks on the top of the volume. "Roget's Thesaurus" is the world's most famous and trusted word-finder. First published in 1852, it has now sold over 32 million copies worldwide and has become the indispensable desk companion for generations of speakers and writers of English. Unlike most other thesauruses, it groups words thematically rather than in a straight A-Z sequence, thus offering the writer and speaker a much more creative and subtle means of finding new ways to express their thoughts: it is essential for anyone who wants to improve their command, creative use and enjoyment of English, and is perfect for composing speeches, or for writing all manner of prose and poetry. It remains, definitively, a writer's best friend
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