An edition of The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

A Tale of Murder, Madness and Love of Words

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An edition of The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

A Tale of Murder, Madness and 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
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Cover of: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
2010, Penguin Group UK
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Cover of: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
February 5, 2001, Longman
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Cover of: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
June 3, 1999, Penguin Books Ltd
Cover of: The Surgeon of Crowthorne
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and Love of Words
1998, Viking
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Hardcover
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OL7643445M
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0670878626
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