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Author:

Winchester, Simon.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Harper Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2005, c1998

Description:

xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Oxford English dictionary.
Murray, James Augustus Henry--Sir,--1837-1915--Friends and associates.
Minor, William Chester.
Lexicographers--Great Britain.
English language--Etymology.
English language--Lexicography.
United States--Veterans.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Great Britain.
New English dictionary on historical principles.
Oxford English dictionary.
Murray, James Augustus Henry--Sir,--1837-1915--Friends and associates.
Minor, William Chester.
Lexicographers.
English language--Etymology.
English language--Dictionaries--History.
United States--History--1861-1865, Civil War.
Veterans--United States.
Mentally ill--Great Britain--Institutional care.
New English dictionary on historical principles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).

Summary:

Explains how the "Oxford English Dictionary" was created and discusses the relationship between the editor and one of his most influential contributors, a psychotic murderer in one of England's cruelest asylums.

ISBN:

0329617532
9780329617530
0329445030
9780329445034
0060839783 (pbk.)
9780060839789

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UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)

I6OX771 -- Mercy College Library (Des Moines)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

XNPC367 -- Hamburg Public Library (Hamburg)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

WVPB305 -- Lake Park Public Library (Lake Park)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)