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<em>The Professor and the Madman</em>, 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 <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em> -- and literary history. The compilation of the <em>OED</em>, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more 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.
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Penguin Readers - 5: The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester
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- Released
- 2003
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- Title
- Penguin Readers - 5: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Simon Winchester
- Publisher
- Pearson Elt
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN10
- 058243565X
- ISBN13
- 9780582435650
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, 20th century, Biographies, Language Textbooks, Mental Health, History of Europe, Readers, True Crime, About Books, Victorian Era, Mental Illness
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- <em>The Professor and the Madman</em>, 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 <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em> -- and literary history. The compilation of the <em>OED</em>, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more 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.