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The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
The Oxford English Dictionary and its most prolific volunteer, an American surgeon confined to an asylum for murder. A strange, true friendship.
Read it if…
you want words and madness together.
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Skip it if…
you want dictionary history alone; see The Meaning of Everything.
Try instead: Barbarian Days →
Three things you will actually use
- Contribution from anywhere.
- Obsession can serve.
- Words are a life's work.
Do this first
Read it in a weekend.
Our verdict
Winchester's OED.
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