The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Título
: 
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Simon. Winchester

Resumen
: 
A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
: 
1999

Descripción física
: 
xiii, 242 p. : ill.

Edición
: 
1st HarperPerennial ed.

Nota general
: 
13.00

Nota local
: 
[w] 15--Sept/00.

Materia personal
: 
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915-Friends and associates.
 
Minor, William Chester.

Materia del título
: 
Oxford English dictionary.

Término de la materia
: 
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

Término geográfico
: 
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.

Síntesis
: 
A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

ISBN
: 
9780060994860
 
9780060839789

Información de publicación
: 
New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.


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