The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
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Summary
The "Oxford English Dictionary" took seventy years to complete and drew upon the minds of thousands of scholars for its content. One of its most prolific contributors was Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon who had served in the… civil war. The fact that Dr. Minor was insane, and a murderer, was not known to the editor of the dictionary for almost twenty years. 1998.
Title Details
ISBN
9780060175962
Publisher
HarperCollins
Copyright Date
1998
Book number
2429314
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Corrie James
Duration
8 hours 9 minutes 29 seconds
Audio producer
Potomac Talking Book Services