Author and Historian Simon Winchester: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Author: Author and Historian Simon Winchester
Number of Pages: 270 pages
Published Date: 11 Oct 2016
Publisher: HARPER PERENNIAL
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780062564610
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The national bestseller that chronicles the fascinating story of two extraordinary men and the making of the Oxford English Dictionarynow available in a limited Olive Edition. The linguistic detective story of the decade.William Safire, New York Times Magazine Masterfully researched and eloquently written, The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionaryand literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it 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.