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Rent The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
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Narrator: Elizabeth Winchester
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Harperaudio
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
Retail Price: $14.99
Discs: 6
Synopsis
The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed some ten thousand definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane. Book available.