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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Title:
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Author:
Winchester, Simon.
ISBN:
9780060175962
Personal Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. jan99
Physical Description:
242 p. ; 22 cm.
Personal Subject:
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 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.

Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

English language -- Lexicography.

English language -- Etymology.
Geographic Term:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
Added Title:
A tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
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