The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester.
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]
- Copyright: ©1998
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242). |
| Target Audience Note: | 1330L Lexile |
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| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 59 of 64 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rockingham County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 64 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Eden Library | B Murray (Text) | 31554005825012 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
