The surgeon of Crowthorne
Subtitle: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words
By: Simon Winchester.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Murray, James Augustus Henry, -- Sir, -- 1837-1915. -- Friends and associates.; Minor, William Chester.; Oxford English dictionary.; New English dictionary on historical principles.; Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.; English language -- Lexicography.; English language -- Etymology.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
Notes: American ed. published under title: The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary. New York : HarperCollins, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.