Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxfo by Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester

Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxfo

Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester

288 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was ...

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