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Title:
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Personal Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Edition:
First Harperperennial edition.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.

©1998
Physical Description:
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915-Friends and associates.

Minor, William Chester.
Title Subject:
Oxford English dictionary.

New English dictionary on historical principles.
Subject Term:
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.

Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

English language -- Lexicography.

English language -- Etymology.
Geographic Term:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780060994860

9780060839789
Format :
Book

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