Words of Wonder: Best Selections from Devoe Dictionaries

Words of Wonder compiles the very best entries from Robin Devoe's first three dictionaries. This slim, eclectic volume is loaded with cool words, but also interesting and beautiful names and terms from across the breadth and depth of human experience and imagination: zoology, astronomy, history, geometry, anatomy, literature, geography, et alia .

Words, names, terms, and phrases such as:
Pillars of Hercules – Arabia Felix – Doon Edin – Mare Tenebrosum – Riphean Mountains – quill pig ;
frantling – Venusian – Silurian hypothesis – Jovian trojans – Kreutz sungrazers – Perfidious Albion ;
the Great Game – Sahelian kingdoms – sunlit uplands – Groom of the Stool – brave west winds ;
naufragous – the Lost Generation – Erewhonian – bring owls to Athens – et in Arcadia ego .

Words of Wonder includes the best entries from the first three dictionaries listed below (the last dictionary listed is a compilation of nearly the entirety of the first three):

Dictionary of the Strange, Curious, and Lovely is a collection of the 3500 coolest words in the English language (155 pages and a 6x9 inch trim size – all others are 5x8).

Epic English Words includes the best 10% or so of that 3500, and also interesting names and terms from diverse scientific, artistic, and literary fields. So moonglade , nemorous & brontide ; and so too Devonian, Muspelheim, Shambhala & Avalon are included (146 pages).

Dictionary of the Rare, Creative, and Beautiful is similar conceptually to Epic English Words except it includes almost all new entries (189 pages).

Dictionary of the Strange, Epic, and Beautiful compiles these three previous dictionaries (516 pages).

If you buy only one of the Robin Devoe dictionaries, buy Words of Wonder . It's more portable and cost less than the second choice – the 516-page volume mentioned above.

This dictionary is a wonderful compilation of interesting and beautiful entries for readers, writers, dreamers, poets, artists, word-lovers, and all creative people!