The Surgeon of Crowthorne -

The Surgeon of Crowthorne Paperback

A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

By Simon Winchester

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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.

Product code: 9780140271287

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ISBN 9780140271287
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
No. Of Pages 224
Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) H198xW130xS14

A book about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and the love of words. It tells of the relationship between the dictionary editor and one of its main contributors (they were all volunteers) who corresponded for 17 years before they met - at Broadmoor.