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

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Winchester, Simon

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English

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Biographies
Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
English language
English language -- Etymology
English language -- Lexicography
Entstehung
Etymology
Europe
Friends and associates
Great Britain
Historical
History
History and criticism
Language Arts
Lexicographers
Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Lexicography
Literary Figures
Minor, William Chester
Murray, James A. H
Murray, James A. H. -- 1837-1915 -- (James Augustus Henry), -- Friends and associates
Murray, James Augustus Henry
Murray, James Augustus Henry, -- Sir, -- 1837-1915
Murray, James Augustus Henry, -- Sir, -- 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates
New English dictionary on historical principles
Nonfiction
Oxford English dictionary
Psychiatric hospital patients
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
The Oxford English dictionary
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
Veterans

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Winchester, Simon Author
Winchester, Simon Author, Reader

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9780060839789
9780061807602
9780060994860
9780060175962
006099486
9780060756321

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