skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary Preview this item
Preview this item

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

Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, ©1999.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st Harperperennial edView all editions and formats
Rating:

Retrieving ratings and reviews data...  

Get this item

Borrow or obtain a copy

Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Named Person: James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir; William Chester Minor
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 006099486X 9780060994860
OCLC Number: 42373835
Description: xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Simon Winchester.

Reviews

Retrieving WorldCat reviews...
Retrieving EMRO reviews...
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.