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020 _a006099486X
100 _aWINCHESTER, Simon
_c
245 _aThe Professor and the Madman
_bA Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
260 _aNew York
_bHarper Perennial
_c1999
300 _a242 S. Illustr.
520 _aThe 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.
650 _aEnglischliteratur
650 _aScience fiction
650 _aTopic
650 _adetective story
650 _aFiction
942 _cBK
999 _c12300
_d12300