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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
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The surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester
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- Released
- 1999
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- The surgeon of Crowthorne
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Simon Winchester
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140271287
- ISBN13
- 9780140271287
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, Textbooks, Biographies, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, Family, Friendship, Languages, Murders, England, English Literature, Dictionaries, True Crime, History Textbooks, America, Unexplained Mysteries, Fate, About Books, Based on True Events, Reading, Madness, Oxford, Homecomings
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- The Professor and the Madman
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.