THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
by Winchester, Simon
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- Hardcover
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- Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, prev owner's name.)/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0060175966
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175962
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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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- Title
- THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
- Author
- Winchester, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, prev owner's name.)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060175966
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175962
- Publisher
- Harper Collins,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1998.)
- Keywords
- Professor James Murray, Dr. William Chester Minor, broadmoor, lexicography,
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- History;
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