The Surgeon Of Crowthorne A Tale Of Murder, Madness And The Love Of Words
Author: Simon Winchester
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: $12.00 NZD
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: 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.