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

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New York : HarperPerennial, 2005.

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Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction	423.092 WIN	Check Shelf
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Edition	1st HarperPerennial ed.
Description	xiii, 242 pages, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note	"P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover.
	"First HarperPerennial edition published 1999. Reissued 2005"--T.p. verso.
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.
Summary	Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-242).
Subject	Minor, William Chester.
	Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates.
	Minor, William Chester. (OCoLC)fst00412394
	Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915. (OCoLC)fst01898763
	American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
	Oxford English dictionary.
	New English dictionary on historical principles. (OCoLC)fst01361405
	Oxford English dictionary. (OCoLC)fst01363319
Chronological Term	1861 - 1865
Subject	Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.
	Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
	English language -- Lexicography.
	English language -- Etymology.
	Encyclopedias and dictionaries. (OCoLC)fst00909533
	English language -- Etymology. (OCoLC)fst00911149
	English language -- Lexicography. (OCoLC)fst00911326
	Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
	Lexicographers. (OCoLC)fst00997019
	Psychiatric hospital patients. (OCoLC)fst01081030
	Veterans. (OCoLC)fst01165710
	New English dictionary on historical principles.
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780060839789
	0060839783

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