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

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

Author: Simon Winchester

Narrator: Elizabeth Winchester

Format: Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Harperaudio

Published: Oct 2005

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Retail Price: $14.99

Discs: 6

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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.

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