The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American physician, locked up in an English asylum for murder. British stage actor Simon Jones leads us through this uncommon meeting of minds (the other belonging to self-educ... More
Book Information
Publisher | HarperCollins Children's Books |
Binding | Audio Cassette (29 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | 0694520667 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0694520664 |
Publication Date | 08/26/1998 |
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About Simon Jones (Reader) : Simon Jones is a published author and a narrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Simon Jones include The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: The Amulet of Samarka... more
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