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- 96 páginas
- 4 horas de lectura
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<em>The Professor and the Madman</em>, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em> -- and literary history. The compilation of the <em>OED</em>, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.
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Penguin Readers - 5: The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester
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- Título
- Penguin Readers - 5: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Simon Winchester
- Editorial
- Pearson Elt
- Publicado en
- 2003
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 96
- ISBN10
- 058243565X
- ISBN13
- 9780582435650
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Libros de texto, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Diccionarios y libros de texto de idiomas, Familia, Amistad, Idiomas, Asesinatos, Inglaterra, Literatura inglesa, Diccionarios, True crime, América, Destino, Sobre libros, Basado en hechos reales, Lectura, Locura, Oxford, Regresos a Casa
- Primera publicación
- 1998
- Título original
- The Professor and the Madman
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- <em>The Professor and the Madman</em>, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em> -- and literary history. The compilation of the <em>OED</em>, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.