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
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Publisher | G. K. Hall & Company |
Binding | Hardcover (29 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 308 |
ISBN-10 | 0783885008 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0783885001 |
Publication Date | 04/1999 |
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