robinwalter 's review for:

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

DID NOT FINISH: 35%

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The book promised to focus on two 'protagonists', buy by 35% of the ways through, the actual editor of the OED had played only a 'minor' role. Too much mayhem, murder and lunacy, not enough Murray and lexicography.