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AUTHOR |
Winchester, Simon, 1944-. |
TITLE |
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester. |
IMPRINT |
New York : HarperCollins, 1998. |
DESCRIPTION |
xi, 242 p. ; 22 cm. |
SUBJECT |
Minor, William Chester. |
SUBJECT |
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915. |
SUBJECT |
English language -- Lexicography. |
SUBJECT |
English language -- Etymology. |
SUBJECT |
Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography. |
SUBJECT |
Oxford English dictionary. |
SUBJECT |
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography. |
SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography. |
DISCIPLINE |
English Language. |
ISBN |
9780060839789. |
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