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Winchester, Simon THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN
a tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Hardcover: 1998 HarperCollins Ninth printing 0060175966 / 9780060175962
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight: grams.
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857. It took 70 years to complete. It drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized a sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story: Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations for words to be used in the dictionary. But he would never come to Oxford to consult with the editor, Professor James Murray. In 1896 after Minor had sent nearly 10,000 definitions to the dictionary, Murray learned that in addition to being a masterful wordsmith Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane and locked up in Broadmoor—England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics. 'The Professor and the Madman' (also published as 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne') is an extraordinary tale of madness and genius, and the incredible obsessions of two men at the heart of the OED and of literary history.
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