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The surgeon of Crowthorne

a tale of murder, madness and the love of words

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The surgeon of Crowthorne
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An edition of The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)

The surgeon of Crowthorne

a tale of murder, madness and the love of words

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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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Viking
Language
English
Pages
207

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Subjects
Biography, Biography & Autobiography, English language, Etymology, Friends and associates, Grammar & Language Usage, History, Language Arts, Lexicographers, Lexicography, New English dictionary on historical principles, Nonfiction, Oxford English dictionary, Psychiatric hospital patients, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Veterans, Literary collections
People
James Augustus Henry Murray Sir (1837-1915), William Chester Minor
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Great Britain, United States
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Civil War, 1861-1865

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
2010, Penguin Group UK
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
February 5, 2001, Longman
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The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words
1998, Viking
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1998, Viking
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and Love of Words
1998, Viking
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American ed. published under title: The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary. New York : HarperCollins, 1998.

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Biography.

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207 p. :
Number of pages
207

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OL20768916M
ISBN 10
0670878626
OCLC/WorldCat
39795646
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2262
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548313

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