[PDF.50ss] The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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

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 | #8087 in Books |  Harper Perennial |  2005 |  2005-07-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.65 x5.31l,.50 | File type: PDF | 242 pages

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||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Words, madness and wonder.|By samssis|Did you ever wonder just how the Oxford English Dictionary came to be? Simon Winchester, another fine historical novelist, tells the story of this monumental achievement as the life-work of the modest and brilliant scholar, James Murray. When he publishes a call to men of letters to start a compilation of all the words in the English lang|.com |The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American physician, locke

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered ...

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