The professor and the madman
Subtitle: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
By: Simon Winchester.
Edition: 1st Harperperennial ed.
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780060994860
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; Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism; Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography; English language -- Lexicography; English language -- Etymology; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
Table of contents: title: The dead of the night in Lambeth Marsh; title: The man who taught Latin to cattle; title: The madness of war; title: Gathering Earth's daughters; title: The big dictionary conceived; title: The scholar in cell block two; title: Entering the lists; title: Annulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat; title: The meeting of minds; title: The unkindest cut; title: Then only the monuments.