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Title: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Author : Simon Winchester

Pages : 242 pages

Publisher : HarperCollins

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0060175966

ISBN-13 : 9780060175962

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary BY Simon Winchester

Read Online and Download The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Mysterious (mist?e ? ries), a. [f. L. myst?rium Mysteryi + ous. Cf. F. myst?rieux.]1. Full of or fraught with mystery; wrapt in mystery; hidden from human knowledge or understanding; impossible or difficult to explain, solve, or discover; of obscure origin, nature, or purpose.It is known as one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of English letters. The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story ? a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who .

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