Winchester, Simon.

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. - xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).

ISBN: 0060175966 006099486x (pbk.)

LCCN: 98010204 //r98

Subjects--Personal Names:
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 --Friends and associates.
Minor, William Chester.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Oxford English dictionary.
New English dictionary on historical principles.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychiatric hospital patients--Biography.--Great Britain
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.
Lexicographers--Biography.--Great Britain
English language--Lexicography.
English language--Etymology.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Veterans--Biography.--Civil War, 1861-1865

LC Class. No.: PE1617.O94 / W56 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 423/.092