How I Made My Dictionary
Emile Littre. Translated from the French by T.K. Gopalan
• 1998 • Pages: 76 • Price: Rs. 225.00 + ÀÐÿÏÙð ÷ÏÙ¢ • Price US $ 11.00 including freight
• ISBN 81-85602-72-7
A first-person narrative, How I Made My Dictionary is an engaging and human account of how Emile Littre (1801-1881), physician, scholar, politician and lexicographer struggled with the totality of words in the French language, bringing to the organisation of its meaning system a historical perspective, of his indefatigable energy, rising at eight and often continuing in the light of the following dawn; of how the effort that started in his late years lasted nearly three decades, surviving the race against time, fire, political upheavals and the vicissitudes of human life. It is a story of the triumph of ‘method and clarity of mind’. A first time English translation.
