WINCHESTER, Simon   <br/><br/>
The Professor and the Madman  A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 

 - New York  Harper Perennial  1999 
 - 242 S. Illustr. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>006099486X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Englischliteratur<br/>Science fiction<br/>Topic<br/>detective story<br/>Fiction