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 / [print] Simon Winchester. - first Harperperennial edition. - New York : HarperPerennial, (c)1999. - xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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.
Murray, James A. H. 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.
PE1617.W759.P764 1999
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / [print] Simon Winchester. - first Harperperennial edition. - New York : HarperPerennial, (c)1999. - xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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.
Murray, James A. H. 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.
PE1617.W759.P764 1999