The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
Notes
4The subtitle encapsulates this on quite nicely: “A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.” Absolutely fascinating history of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, which quite frankly boggles my mind whenever I stop and consider what a massive undertaking it was. Winchester does a great job of making the story come alive and setting straight some facts that have been twisted over the years.