The Surgeon of Crowthorne - a tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
Penguin (1999)
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Criminally Insane, English Language, Lexicographers, Oxford English Dictionary, Psychiatric Hospital Patients
e-Book 9780140271287
English
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
Product Details
LoC Classification PE1617.O94 .W56 1999
Dewey 428
Cover Price £8.99
No. of Pages 224
Height x Width 197 x 129  mm
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