The Surgeon Of Crowthorne A Tale Of Murder, Madness And The Love Of Words

Author: Simon Winchester

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  • : $12.00 NZD
  • : 9780670878628
  • : Penguin Books
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  • : December 1998
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Description

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.