Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Part homage to the greatest reference work of all time, the Oxford English Dictionary, part mystery, part intellectual history of Victorian England, The Professor and the Madman tells the parallel stories of the dictionary's genius editor and one of his most prolific contributors, an insane American doctor committed to an asylum for murder. Economist An extraordinary tale, and Simon Winchester could not have told it better. . . . [He] has written a splendid book.
1: The Dead of Night in Lambeth Marsh 2: The Man Who Taught Latin to Cattle 3: The Madness of War 4: Gathering Earth's Daughters 5: The Big Dictionary Conceived 6: The Scholar in Cell Block Two 7: Entering the Lists 8: Annulated, Art, Brick-Tea, Buckwheat 9: The Meeting of Minds 10: The Unkindest Cut 11: Then Only the Monuments Postscript Author's Note Acknowledgments Suggestions for Further Reading
