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Author Winchester, Simon.

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

Publication Info. New York : HarperPerennial, [1999]
©1999

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  423 WIN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  423 WINCHESTER    Check Shelf
Edition First Harperperennial edition.
Description xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-242).
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.
Subject Oxford English dictionary.
Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.
New English dictionary on historical principles.
Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
English language -- Lexicography.
English language -- Etymology.
Minor, William Chester.
ISBN 006099486X paperback
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