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

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

By
: 
Winchester, Simon.

Publication Date
: 
1998

Publication Information
: 
New York : HarperCollins Publishers,

Physical Description
: 
242 p. : ill.

Subject Term
: 
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
 
Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
 
English language -- Lexicography.
 
English language -- Etymology.

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

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9780060175962


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) HarmsworthAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction423 W72Checked In