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Title:
The professor and the madman [CD] : [a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary]
Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Audio, p2005.
Physical Description:
6 compact discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9780060836269
Abstract:
When editors of the "Oxford English dictionary" put out a call during the late 19th century for "men of letters" to contribute entries, hundreds of responses came forth.
General Note:
Unabridged.
Performers:
Read by Simon Winchester.
Personal Subject:
Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915

Minor, William Chester.
Title Subject:
Oxford English dictionary.

New English dictionary on historical principles.
Subject Term:
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

English language -- Lexicography.

English language -- Etymology.

Unabridged audiobook.
Geographic Term:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
Genre:
Audiobooks, Nonfiction.
Language:
English
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