The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness And the Love of Words - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0670878626 ISBN 13: 9780670878628

Casa editrice: Viking, 1998

Riassunto

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, imprisioned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.

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L'autore:

Simon Winchester, who has reported from almost everywhere during an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent, now lives in New York. He is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler & contributes to a number of American magazines,as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC. His books include: Outposts; Korea; The Pacific; Pacific Nightmare; Prison Diary, Argentina; The River At the Centre of the World (Viking 1997)

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• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0670878626
• ISBN 13: 9780670878628
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224