- 319 pp.
A Guide to German Language, Culture and Society through Faux-Amis, Literary Illustration and Other Diversions
‘Anyone with the slightest interest in Germany … will dip into it continually and compulsively or read it from cover to cover’ – The Linguist
‘A remarkable compendium of anecdote and wit … instructive as well as entertaining’ – The Times Literary Supplement
‘There is room,’ wrote Edward Gibbon, ‘for a very interesting work, which should lay open the connexion between the languages and manners of nations.’ This task is illuminatingly fulfilled for the English and German languages in this instructive and diverting volume.
Fred Bridgham retired as Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.