Bibliograph

The professor and the madman, a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary, Simon Winchester

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The professor and the madman, a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary, Simon Winchester

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The professor and the madman

Oclc number

83977055

Responsibility statement

Simon Winchester

Sub title

a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Summary

Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Table Of Contents

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

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