Title The professor and the madman : [a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary] / by Simon Winchester.

Publication Info.	Newport Beach, CA : Books On Tape, [1999]
	℗1999

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	CD BOOK 423 WINCHESTER	Check Shelf

Description	6 audio discs (10 hrs., 58 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time	105800
Note	Unabridged.
	Subtitle from container.
	In one container.
Performer	Read by David Case.
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.
System Details	Book on CD.
Note	GMD: sound recording.
Subject	Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates.
	Oxford English dictionary.
	New English dictionary on historical principles.
	Audiobooks.
	Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	English language -- Lexicography.
	English language -- Etymology.
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
Added Author	Case, David.
	Books on Tape, Inc.
ISBN	0736651608: $63.00
Music No.	4882-CD Books on Tape

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