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

Professor and the madman (portion title)
Winchester, Simon, (author.).

Summary:

The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American physician, locked up in an English asylum for murder.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060175966
  • ISBN: 0965792951
  • ISBN: 9781606711385
  • ISBN: 1606711385
  • ISBN: 9780060839789
  • ISBN: 006099486X
  • ISBN: 9780060994860
  • Physical Description: xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1998]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242).
Target Audience Note:
1330L Lexile

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