Penguin Readers - 5: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
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- 96 páginas
- 4 horas de lectura
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The Professor and the Madman , 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 Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED , 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
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2003
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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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
- Tema histórico, Diccionarios y libros de texto de idiomas, Familia, Amistad, Asesinatos, Inglaterra, Literatura inglesa, Diccionarios, América, Libros de texto de historia, 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
- The Professor and the Madman , 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 Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED , 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.