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Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Title:
The professor and the madman [sound recording] / by Simon Winchester.
Format:
[sound recording] /
Publisher:
Harper Audio,
Copyright Date:
p1998
Description:
6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject:
Oxford English dictionary.
Murray, James Augustus Henry,--Sir,--1837-1915--Friends and associates.
United States--Veterans--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Great Britain--Biography.
New English dictionary on historical principles.
Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.
English language--Lexicography.
English language--Etymology.
Minor, William Chester.
Notes:
Read by the author. Unabridged. "A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"--Container.
Summary:
When editors of the "Oxford English dictionary" put out a call during the late 19th century for "men of letters" to contribute entries, hundreds of responses came forth.
ISBN:
9780060836269
0060836261
OCLC:
(OCoLC)61852724
Locations:
GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

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