Fiction
The Professor and the Madman
A Harper Perennial paperback of Simon Winchester's 1998 account of two men who made the Oxford English Dictionary possible: the Scottish editor James Murray and the American surgeon W. C. Minor, who contributed thousands of entries from a cell in Broadmoor. Winchester treats the meeting as both a friendship and a collision of obsession and mental illness. The Harper Perennial edition is the standard trade paperback, with the small type and utilitarian cover of a book meant to be read on public transit. Ideal reader: the dictionary user who has never considered the labor behind the definitions, or the reader who likes history best when it follows an unlikely pair of fanatics.
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