The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

207 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history reference informative slow-paced
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1999, mass market paperback reprint edition, Penguin, NY. 207 pages. "An extraordinary tale." Great book, with true characters who seem fictional, indeed. Two men correspond for 20 years. They were, in fact, writing what was to become The Oxford E...

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