The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary /
Winchester, Simon.
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. - xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
0060175966
98010204 //r98
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 --Friends and associates.
Minor, William Chester.
Oxford English dictionary.
New English dictionary on historical principles.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Biography.--Great Britain
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.
Lexicographers--Biography.--Great Britain
English language--Lexicography.
English language--Etymology.
United States--History--Veterans--Biography.--Civil War, 1861-1865
PE1617.O94 / W56 1998
423/.092
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. - xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
0060175966
98010204 //r98
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 --Friends and associates.
Minor, William Chester.
Oxford English dictionary.
New English dictionary on historical principles.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Biography.--Great Britain
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.
Lexicographers--Biography.--Great Britain
English language--Lexicography.
English language--Etymology.
United States--History--Veterans--Biography.--Civil War, 1861-1865
PE1617.O94 / W56 1998
423/.092