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. - First HarperPerennial ed. - New York : HarperPerennial, 1999, c1998. - xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242)
006099486X (pbk.)
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--Great Britain--Biography.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.
Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.
English language--Lexicography.
English language--Etymology.
United States--History--Veterans--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester. - First HarperPerennial ed. - New York : HarperPerennial, 1999, c1998. - xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242)
006099486X (pbk.)
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--Great Britain--Biography.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.
Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.
English language--Lexicography.
English language--Etymology.
United States--History--Veterans--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.