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The professor and the madman, a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary, Simon Winchester

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The professor and the madman, a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary, Simon Winchester
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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contains biographical information
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no index present
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non fiction
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The professor and the madman
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bibliography
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Simon Winchester
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a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Summary
When James Murray, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, set out to meet Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon and Civil War veteran and one of his most prolific contributors, he found the man in Broadmoor, an asylum for the criminally insane
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