The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Professor & the Madman

A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

1998 • 200 pages

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Average rating3.8

15

This was okay, but just okay. The story is interesting, but the author is a little heavy handed with how amazing the story's ‘coincidences' are. In fact, the only really compelling coincidence is the part about the horse race in the end notes...

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