The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
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Joshua Kendall
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

Joshua Kendall

320 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary Thesaurus. Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado-was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed an all...

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