The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
006099486X

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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FORT557591
RB - Linguistics

The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
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