The Surgeon of Crowthorne - A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words
Author(s): Simon Winchester
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a fifty-year task requiring the assistance of thousands of volunteers - one of the keenest a W C Minor. Minor was a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder. Here Simon Winchester tells this uplifting tale.
Product Information
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- : Penguin Books
- : Viking
- : 30 November 1998
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Simon Winchester
- : Hardback with dustjacket
- : 207
