The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0060839783 | 276 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0060839783 | 276 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Oxford English Dictionary used 1,827,306 quotations to help define its 414,825 words. Tens of thousands of those used in the first edition came from the erudite, moneyed American Civil War veteran Dr. W.C. Minor?all from a cell at the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.