The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman

Simon Winchester

242 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of it...

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