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ISBN
9780140271287
Book Title
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: a Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
Publication Year
1999
Type
Study Guide
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
198mm
Author
Simon Winchester
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Writing & Reading
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
159g
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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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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Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780140271287
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: a Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Author
Simon Winchester
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Writing & Reading
Publication Year
1999
Type
Study Guide
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
159g

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Simon Winchester
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United Kingdom

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