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With her signature cache of illustrations and flamboyantly gothic examples, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, "who has achieved cult status with her whimsical references, defines an array of daffy, delicious words" (Library Journal). In The Disheveled Dictionary Gordon conjures a world of words, their... read more
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Even as a child, the prince showed a tendency to gentle derangements: at the age of four he persuaded the queen mother to abrogate Azuriko's sumptuary laws so that his imaginary playmates could wear ermine earmuffs, aureate collars of preposterous height, bejeweled knickers, dentellated tights, and musk-ox muffs and mittens.
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- Karen Elizabeth Gordon (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0395689902
Page Count: 176
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0395689902
Page Count: 176
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- Dewey: 423
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