The Surgeon of Crowthorne By Simon Winchester

The Surgeon of Crowthorne By Simon Winchester PDF book download free from here. Simon Winchester’s book, “The Surgeon of Crowthorne” (known as “The Professor and the Madman” in North America), is a captivating exploration of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

The narrative focuses on the unlikely partnership between Sir James Murray, the dictionary’s primary editor, and William Chester Minor, a former U.S. Army surgeon who contributed to the project while incarcerated in an asylum for the criminally insane. The book, which was later adapted into a film, also led Winchester to delve deeper into the history of the OED in a subsequent work, “The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary”.

The Surgeon of Crowthorne By Simon Winchester Book Info:

• Publisher: Penguin
• Published: June 3, 1999
• Pages: 174
• Size: 0.9

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