The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester

207 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: one a brilliant polymath, the other a madman and murderer.Dr James Murray, erudite and pious, who broke free from an impoverished childhood to become a...

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