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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.

Edition:

1st Harperperennial ed.

Publisher:

HarperPerennial,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

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

Subject:

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

Notes:

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

Contents:

The dead of the night in Lambeth Marsh -- The man who taught Latin to cattle -- The madness of war -- Gathering Earth's daughters -- The big dictionary conceived -- The scholar in cell block two -- Entering the lists -- Annulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat -- The meeting of minds -- The unkindest cut -- Then only the monuments.

ISBN:

9780060994860 (pbk.)
006099486X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42373835

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