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The Professor and the Madman A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Harper Perennial 1999Description: 242 S. IllustrISBN:
  • 006099486X
Subject(s): Summary: The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane.
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Bücher Bücher Schulbibliothek BSZ Mistelbach ZSB Fremdsprachige Literatur FS.E WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 201372

The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane.

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