The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
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Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
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An absolutely fascinating history mingling two stories: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and one of its leading contributors, a brilliant, but insane American confined in a British asylum. Full of fascinating facts and quirky personalities, it reads more like a novel.
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