![]() Simon Winchester could not have told it better. Beautifully told and awe-inspiring Daily Mail The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary Kindle Edition by Simon Winchester (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 529 ratings Hardcover 75.99 4 Used from 75.99 1 New from 193.17 Paperback from 22.93 2 Used from 27.80 3 New from 22.93 Audio, Cassette 8.00 1 Used from 8. charged with murder!Ī weird and wonderful story of an eccentric friendship, and a slice of history Sunday Times William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who. Minor, a millionaire and American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand of those words.īut when the committee insisted on honouring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. ![]() ![]() ![]() An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history! ![]()
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