by Simon Winchester · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670878628
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«The Surgeon of Crowthorne» is Simon Winchester's historical chronicle, published by Viking in hardback (224 pages, in English).
It tells the true story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, an undertaking that occupied hundreds of volunteers for half a century. The narrative focuses on the relationship between editor James Murray and W. C. Minor, an American surgeon confined to Broadmoor asylum after being convicted of murder, who sent entries from his cell.
Subtitled «A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words». The American edition appeared as «The Professor and the Madman» and includes bibliographic references.
For those interested in historical biographies, the history of language and unusual episodes of the nineteenth century.
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.
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