The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale Of Murder, Madness And The Love Of Words 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 b y 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. This 1998 Viking Hardback is in fair condition. Dj. ISBN: 9780670878628 SKU: 1439175 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more