Superior Person's Books of Words

To greet the holidays, we are gathering into one affordable, attractive package all three of the invaluable volumes that comprise Mr. Bowler's timeless trilogy, & issuing them in a boxed set. The author's purpose in compiling these small, elegant, & edifying works is to give readers "a more finely tuned engine of the language they speak, so they may more readily assert their linguistic superiority over their fellow travellers at the traffic stops of life." Yes, it is all here, a panoply of 1,800 arcane but totally plausible words that neither you nor your loved ones has ever heard, plus textual advice on how to use them to confound your friends, irritate your enemies, & impress your superiors. There's yet more: anecdotes of eccentric scholars, the unbelievable & irrevocable mistakes of the rich & famous, examples of idiotic concepts, & further oddities & curiosities of the so-called intellectual life.Bowler, Peter is the author of 'Superior Person's Books of Words', published 2001 under ISBN 9781567921595 and ISBN 1567921590.