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

Author: Simon Winchester

ISBN: 9780060994860

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 1999

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 272

Condition: Used Copy

Publisher : The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

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