The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
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- Acceptable
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0736644210
- ISBN 13
- 9780736644211
- Seller
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Spring Branch, Texas, United States
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Synopsis
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a book by Simon Winchester first published in 1998. The American edition is called The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and was published the same year. It tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and one of its most useful early contributors, Dr. W.C. Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon.
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- Seller
- GuthrieBooks (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SAA93728
- Title
- The Professor and the Madman
- Author
- Simon Winchester
- Format/Binding
- Audio Cassette
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0736644210
- ISBN 13
- 9780736644211
- Publisher
- Books on Tape
- Place of Publication
- Santa Ana, Ca
- This edition first published
- 1999
- Size
- 8x6x1
- X weight
- 15 oz
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