Books by Anthony Burgess
A Mouthful of Air
by Anthony Burgess
Burgess is a remarkable polymath. A Mouthful of Air is a very weird and wonderful book about language in general, not just about English
Interviews where books by Anthony Burgess were recommended
The best books on Language, recommended by Henry Hitchings
The wordsmith and cultural historian debunks common myths about English, recommends the smartest writing about words, and says apostrophes are “orthographic squiggles” not worth fighting for.