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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Title:
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Personal Author EPSB:
Simon. Winchester
Summary:
A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Year Published:
1999
Physical Description:
xiii, 242 p. : ill.
Edition:
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Note:
13.00
Note (Local):
[w] 15--Sept/00.
Grade Interest level:
Young Adult
Personal Subject:
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915-Friends and associates.

Minor, William Chester.
Title Subject:
Oxford English dictionary.
Subject:
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.

English language -- Lexicography.

English language -- Etymology.

English language -- Lexicography -- History -- 19th century.

Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Oxford English Dictionary
Geographic Term:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780060994860

9780060839789
Publisher:
New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.
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