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Lexicography & Language Oxford Etymologist Word of the Year OxfordWords Classics & Archaeology Today is Sunday Jan 13th, 2013 Saturday Jan 12th, 2013 Choice in the true neces­saries and means of life In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alon... Walden is Thoreau?s classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his r... humanities literature oxford-worlds-cla... Friday Jan 11th, 2013 The map she carried Marjorie Senechal on the legacy of Dorothy Wrinch ?Compelling reading? old Westminster has at last found a sympathetic obituarist.? The Day Parliament Burned Down reviewed in the TLS . . . . . ?There are some absolutely laugh-out-loud moments in this consistently insightful and well-writte... . . . . . ?delivering a strong and clear-eyed appraisal of Hopkins's personal life, and demonstrating consi... The Hopkins Touch reviewed in the Wall Street Journal