The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Book 2213/Completed: 8/17/2009
Author: | Winchester, Simon | Edition Information: | 1st ed. | Published/Created: | New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. | Description: | xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | LC Classification: | PE1617.O94 W56 1998 | Dewey Class No.: | 423/.092 21 | ISBN: | 0060175966 | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242). | Subjects: | Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915. | | Minor, William Chester. | | Oxford English dictionary. | | New English dictionary on historical principles. | | English language -- Lexicography -- History -- 19th century. | | Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography. | | Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography. | | English language -- Etymology. | | United States -- History --Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography. |
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