"Slumbrously" … you can almost physically feel the sensation of drifting into sleep, sinking drowsily onto a soft pillow in a cradle of dreaming. For instance, "slumbrously", which I came across recently in a review – what a gorgeous assemblage of letters and sounds. It's especially nice if the word itself is, well, especially nice. I love old words anyway, and those moments when you stumble upon one that's strange to you. Each is a surprise in itself your mind is constantly forced to check itself, think back over what it's processed, and ask, "Do I know what that means? Do I think I know? Can I guess at the meaning from its context?" (And sometimes, you don't really want to know anyway.) There's a challenge to unfamiliar words, or even vaguely recognised ones you can't "skim-read" as normal, but must make your way in a stately fashion through each sentence.
He found himself standing back to marvel at "a single sentence of 89 words, some unfamiliar, the entire passage peculiar and evocative, almost gratuitously verbose in this era of controlled prose and a 'less is more' aesthetic." He wrote: In a recent piece in The Guardian's Books Blog, author and journalist Darragh McManus delved into the land of archaic literature with an Oxford University Press collection of Gothic fiction, Tales of the Macabre. And as a bonus, they're available in newly released paperback classics or even in e-book form. It tells the story of a high-society woman - an aristocrat's wife - who takes a lower-class man (the gamekeeper on the couple's.
Lawrence, was first published privately in Florence, Italy in 1928. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover,' a novel by D.H. Vocabulary-rich literary classics are rife with words that used to be part of everyday speech and now we encounter much less often. During its 11-year ban, the book was smuggled into the country and sold at high prices by bootleggers. It doesn't have to be a dusty volume shedding its leather binding into your coffee like so much unwanted nutmeg. Anyone seeking out a rich and unusual vocabulary need search no further than the pages of an old book.