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Simon Winchester The Professor And The Madman A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictonary
Harper Perennial 1999 0060955392 / 9780060955397 Paperback Very Good
Paperback, Near Fine, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases, very light rubbing on cover edges The Professorand the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dicitonary-and lierary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most mbitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor james Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submittedmore than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. B5474G
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