The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary [Audiobook] download free by Author And Historian Simon Winchester
- Listen audiobook: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Author: Author And Historian Simon Winchester
- Release date: 2005/2/15
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780060836269
- Rating: 7.48 of 10
- Votes: 725
- Review by: Daisy Lombardi
- Review rating: 8.08 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/22
- Duration: 22M34S in 256 kbps (5.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, MPEG4 (compression EML, RAR, LHA, ZIP, TAR.BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 29
- Includes a PDF summary of 3 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 2M13S (0.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W.C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.This audio also includes a conversation between Simon Winchester and John Simpson, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Literary, Linguistics, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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- Format: Cd-Audio
- Approximate value: 13.74 USD
- Dimensions: 132x149x19mm
- Weight: 172g
- Printed by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Published in: New York, NY, United States
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