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 | #1037270 in Books |  Penguin Books Ltd |  1999-06-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.80 x.55 x5.08l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A life: Profit or Loss?|By C McGhee|THE SURGEON of CROWTHORNE

It's the story of the relationship between the Scottish man that headed the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary & the man that contributed the most as a volunteer layman to it's creation. The head of the project started life as a commoner & the layman was from a dynastic American family. The layman b|About the Author|Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily Telegraph, th

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 y...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary   |  Simon Winchester.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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