'Simon Winchester could not have told it better. Beautifully told and awe-inspiring' Daily Mail The Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester (CD, 3hrs, Penguin, £9.99) 'Great wits are sure to madness near allied / And thin partition do their bounds divide' was how Dryden described what. The surgeon of Crowthorne was indeed a surgeon, graduating from Yale and serving as a doctor in the US army of the civil war. 'A weird and wonderful story of an eccentric friendship, and a slice of history' Sunday Times Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Minor, a millionaire and American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary at . It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- Dr Minor of Crowthorne, who was also a. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand of those words.īut when the committee insisted on honouring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!
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