Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray & the Oxford English Dictionary by K.M. Elisabeth Murray

Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray & the Oxford English Dictionary

K.M. Elisabeth Murray

400 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative lighthearted medium-paced
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This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and a lexicographer greater by far than ...

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