'Simon Winchester could not have told it better. Beautifully told and awe-inspiring' Daily Mail 'A weird and wonderful story of an eccentric friendship, and a slice of history' Sunday Times He was a foreign correspondent for more than thirty years includng twelve years for the Guardian in Asia, reporting on the Hong Kong handover to China for the newspaper in 1997, and twenty years as the Asia editor for Condé Nast Traveler. Minor, a millionaire and American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. Simon Winchester was born and educated in England. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand of those words.īut when the committee insisted on honouring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. The assailant thought that his victim had broken into his room. William had murdered a stranger named George Merrett in 1872 due to paranoia. At that point in his life, the former American army surgeon was a patient at Broadmoor (an asylum). The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. When William Chester Minor heard about the project, he heavily got involved with it. An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history! Summary: Simon Winchesters The Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an.
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