The Professor and the madman

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester


Highly recommendable. Being both an avid reader and sort of an orthographer from my days working as a proof reader in a newspaper, I found this story fascinating. Two men connected by their passion and will to create the most complete dictionary of the english language −which is, by the way, my second language-. Tragic and harrowing but nevertheless interesting.


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