Caught in the Web of Words - James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

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 Dr. Johnson. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties which nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.

Product details

• Authors: K. M. Elisabeth Murray, K.M. Elisabeth Murray
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2001
• EAN: 9780300089196
• ISBN: 978-0-300-08919-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 290 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, English, Scotland, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Lexicography, Biography: historical, political and military