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The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
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The Professor and the Madman
Author(s): Simon Winchester
Now a major motion picture
Review(s):
“A brisk, gracefully executed work of popular intellectual history, a model of its kind.”
“An extraordinary tale, and Simon Winchester could not have told it better. . . . [He] has written a splendid book.”
“Elegant and scrupulous.”
“There is much truth to be drawn [from The Professor and the Madman] about Victorian pride, the relation between language and the world, and the fine line between sanity and madness.”
“Winchester combines a reporter’s eye for detail with a historian’s sense of scale. His writing is droll and eloquent.”
“One of the great strengths of this book is historical mise-en-scene, particularly for nineteenth-century America and England...[a] marvelous work of historical and philogical imagination.”
“Remarkably readable, this chronicle of lexicography roams from the great dictionary itself to hidden nooks in the human psyche that sometimes house the motives for murder, the sources for sanity, and the blueprint for creativity.”
“The Professor and the Madman...is the linguistic detective story of the decade.... Winchester does a superb job of historical research that should entice readers even more interested in deeds than words.”
“Winchester’s history of the OED is brisk and entertaining”
ISBN: 9780060175962
Author(s): Simon Winchester
Now a major motion picture
Review(s):
“A brisk, gracefully executed work of popular intellectual history, a model of its kind.”
“An extraordinary tale, and Simon Winchester could not have told it better. . . . [He] has written a splendid book.”
“Elegant and scrupulous.”
“There is much truth to be drawn [from The Professor and the Madman] about Victorian pride, the relation between language and the world, and the fine line between sanity and madness.”
“Winchester combines a reporter’s eye for detail with a historian’s sense of scale. His writing is droll and eloquent.”
“One of the great strengths of this book is historical mise-en-scene, particularly for nineteenth-century America and England...[a] marvelous work of historical and philogical imagination.”
“Remarkably readable, this chronicle of lexicography roams from the great dictionary itself to hidden nooks in the human psyche that sometimes house the motives for murder, the sources for sanity, and the blueprint for creativity.”
“The Professor and the Madman...is the linguistic detective story of the decade.... Winchester does a superb job of historical research that should entice readers even more interested in deeds than words.”
“Winchester’s history of the OED is brisk and entertaining”
ISBN: 9780060175962