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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 : Harper Perennial, 1999 - xiii, 242 p. : il. ; 21 cm.

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ISBN: 0060175966

Subjects--Personal Names:
Murray, James A. H. 1837-1915.
Minor, William Chester.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Oxford English dictionary.
New English dictionary on historical principles.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language--Lexicography--History--19th century.
Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Great Britain--Biography.
English language--Etymology.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Veterans--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.

LC Class. No.: PE1617.O94 / W55 1999