The Surgeon Of Crowthorne A Tale Of Murder, Madness And The Love Of Words
Author: Simon Winchester
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: $30.00 AUD
: 9780670878628
: Penguin Books
: Viking
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: 0.339
: November 1998
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: Hardback with dustjacket
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Local Description
1998. Reprint. A near fine copy only marked by light uniform tanning of the pages. The d/w is unclipped and fine.
Description
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a fifty-year task requiring the assistance of thousands of volunteers - one of the keenest a W C Minor. Minor was a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder. Here Simon Winchester tells this uplifting tale.