The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0060175966
- Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 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
- 423.092/ 21 WIN
- PE1617.O94 W56 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
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