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"A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has created a vivid parable, in the spirit of Nabokov and Borges. There is much truth to be drawn from it, about Victorian pride, the relation between language and the world, and the fine line between sanity and madness." -- Daniel Mark Epstein, Wall Street Journal "Splendid. . . . Simon Winchester could not have told it better." --The Economist In celebration of its 25th anniversary, an updated edition of t
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- Author
- Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060175962
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Reference, Memoir, Language Learning
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (72,782 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) (1998)
- The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (2005)
- Land - The Ownership of Everything (2005)
- The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (2012)
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary (1998)
- The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary (1998)
- The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary (2016)
- Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Ird English Dictionary, The (2009)
- The Professor and the Madman - A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (2009)
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) (1999)
- The Professor and the Madman - CDN edition (1999)
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