by Simon Winchester · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060994860
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«The Professor and the Madman» is the historical essay by Simon Winchester, published by HarperCollins in paperback (242 pages, in English).
The work narrates the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary and the relationship between its editor, Professor James Murray, and Dr. W. C. Minor, a contributor confined to an asylum after committing murder. It is a tale of obsession, madness, and the singular collaboration that shaped a landmark of lexicography.
The work was published in 1999 and its full subtitle is «A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary».
For readers interested in the history of language, lexicography, and biographical portraits of singular figures.
Simon Winchester is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to over 30 best-selling nonfiction books, one novel, and several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.
