The Professor & the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Ratings47
Average rating3.8
Who'd believe this story if you'd just heard it from a friend: one of the biggest contributors to the huge Oxford English Dictionary was an inmate in an asylum for the insane.
Simon Winchester tells the tale and shares lots of fun words from the OED in the process. A great nonfiction story.
