The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester.
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TextNew York : Harper Collins, 1998Description: xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 18cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062564610 (pbk.)
- Minor, William Chester
- Murray, James A. H. 1837-1915 (James Augustus Henry), -- Friends and associates
- Oxford English dictionary
- New English dictionary on historical principles
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Biography. -- Great Britain
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
- English language -- Lexicography
- English language -- Etymology
- United States -- Biography. -- History -- Veterans -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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"P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover.
"First HarperPerennial edition published 1999. Reissued 2005"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
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.
Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
Refer to PO FY14-2229.
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