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The Surgeon of Crowthorne

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester
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Publication Date: 03/06/1999
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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers.

One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
ISBN:
9780140271287
9780140271287
Category:
Biography: historical
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-06-1999
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
198x130x14mm
Weight:
0.17kg
Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of ‘Atlantic’, ‘The Man Who Loved China’, ‘A Crack in the Edge of the World’, ‘Krakatoa’, ‘The Map That Changed the World’, ‘The Surgeon of Crowthorne’ (’The Professor and the Madman’), ‘The Fracture Zone’, ‘Outposts’ and ‘Korea’, among many other titles. In 2006 he was awarded the OBE. He lives in western Massachusetts and New York City.

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