Ben Schott: Schottenfreude
Schottenfreude
Buch
- German Words for the Human Condition
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- Penguin LLC US, 10/2013
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780399166709
- Bestellnummer: 3568396
- Umfang: 96 Seiten
- Gewicht: 313 g
- Maße: 246 x 123 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.2013
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Schottenfreude is a unique, must-have dictionary, complete with newly coined words that explore the idiosyncrasies of life as only the German language can.Ever thought, There should be a German word for that? Well, thanks to the brilliantly original mind behind Schott's Original Miscellany, now there is. In what other language but German could you construct le mot juste for a secret love of bad foods, the inability to remember jokes, Sunday-afternoon depression, the urge to yawn, the glee of gossip, reassuring your hairdresser, delight at the changing of the seasons, the urge to hoard, or the ineffable pleasure of a cold pillow? A beguiling, ideal gift book for the Gelehrte or anyone on your list-just beware of rapidly expanding (and potentially incomprehensible) vocabularies.
Biografie
Ben Schott was born in North London in 1974. He was educated at University College School. Hampstead, and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read Social and Political Sciences. He has worked with the Independent, The Times, the Sunday Times, Reader's Digest and Sunday Business, amongst many others and has photographed celebrities from Hugh Grant to Tony Blair and Enoch Powell. Now a full-time writer, he has had columns with a number of publications including Condé Nast Traveller and the Daily Telegraph , and is now a regular contributor to the New York Times and The Times of London. He lives in London. Ben Schott
Schottenfreude
EUR 21,94**
EUR 20,33*