The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester.
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TextPublisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 1999Copyright date: ©1998Description: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- General
- Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates
- Minor, William Chester
- Oxford English dictionary
- New English dictionary on historical principles
- English language -- 19th century -- Lexicography -- History
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
- Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- English language -- Etymology
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
- 423/.092 21
- PE1617.O94 W56 1999
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John Tomay Memorial Library | ANF | 423.09 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3GTPL00056232Q |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
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