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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

By (author): Simon Winchester
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 03/Jun/1999
Format: Paperback - 224 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 198 x 128 x 14
ISBN-10: 0140271287
ISBN-13: 9780140271287
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W.C. Minor was one of the keenest volunteers involved in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. What the OED's editor, James Murray didn't realise was that he was also a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder.

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Simon Winchester is a fine writer and looks like every Englishman should. The stories he tells are always fascinating and very well researched. Watch him as he introduces this improbable real life story of a mad man and his lexicographical obsession.