The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Item details
- ISBN: 0060175966
- ISBN: 9780060175962
- ISBN: 9780060839789
- ISBN: 0060839783
- ISBN: 006099486X
- ISBN: 9780060994860
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Physical Description:
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xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©1998.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242). |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The dead of night in Lambeth Marsh -- 2. The man who taught Latin to cattle -- 3. The madness of war -- 4. Gathering Earth's daughters -- 5. The big dictionary conceived -- 6. The scholar in cell block two -- 7. Entering the lists -- 8. Annulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat -- 9. The meeting of minds -- 10. The unkindest cut -- 11. Then only the monuments. |
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Genre: | Biography English Biographies. History. Biographies. History. English. |
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Flint River Regional Library System: Peachtree City Library |
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- Related Resource: http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/112280-1/Simon+Winchester.aspx
- Program air date: November 8, 1998
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