The Professor And The Madman
A Tale Of Murder, Insanity, And The Making Of The Oxford English Dictionary




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The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Book Review by Amy Coffin
It took more than seventy years to create the twelve tombstone-size volumes that made up the first edition of what was to become the great Oxford English Dictionary The OED relies on quotations from "published or otherwise recorded uses of English" t ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 288 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0060839783
- ISBN-13: 9780060839789
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Pub date: Jul 01, 2005
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary By Simon Winchester
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