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

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

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Murray, K.M. Elisabeth
Yale University Press
EAN: 9780300089196
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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 great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.

“It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth.” —Anthony Burgess

“A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant.” —Times (London)

“A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself—grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship.” —Time

“In her vivid biography, Murray’s granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED’s long and difficult birth.” —Times Literary Supplement

“A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked.” —Sunday Times (London)
EAN 9780300089196
ISBN 0300089198
Typ produktu Měkká vazba
Vydavatel Yale University Press
Datum vydání 8. února 2001
Stránky 400
Jazyk English
Rozměry 197 x 127
Země United States
Autoři Murray, K.M. Elisabeth
Ilustrace 26 b-w illus.