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256 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060175962
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most am...
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256 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060175962
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most am...