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The Surgeon Of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester

This is a story that is sad, uplifting and strange; a story of murder, madness and extraordinary achievement, revealing what is surely one of the most singular partnerships in the history of human endeavour. Simon Winchester’s captivating book known in the US as The Professor and the Madman recounts the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, whose existence we largely owe to the Scottish polymath James Murray. But Murray might not have succeeded without the assistance of the other protagonist in this curious tale: American murderer and Broadmoor inmate, Dr William C. Minor.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2014
• Blue Cloth Hardback, 199 pp
• Features previously unpublished watercolours
• Size 245 x160mm, 1kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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