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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
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The surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester
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- Publicado en
- 1999
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- Título
- The surgeon of Crowthorne
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Simon Winchester
- Editorial
- Penguin
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0140271287
- ISBN13
- 9780140271287
- 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
- The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.