![]() ![]() has written a splendid book."- "The Economist""Madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy, all set out in an atmosphere of po-aced, high neo-Gothic. ![]() One sees here the redemptive potential of work and love in even the most deeply, "hopelessly, " psychotic."- Oliver Sacks, M.D."Remarkably readable, this chronicle of lexicography roams from the great dictionary itself to hidden nooks in the human psyche that sometimes house the motives for murder, the sources for sanity, and the blueprint for creativity."- "Kirkus Reviews" (starred)"An extraordinary tale, and Simon Winchester could not have told it better. ![]() "I found "The Professor and the Madman both enthralling and moving, in its brilliant reconstruction of a most improbable event: the major contributions made to the great Oxford English Dictionary by a deeply delusional, incarcerated "madman, " and the development of a true friendship between him and the editor of the OED. ![]()
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