The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

ISBN-13: 9780140271287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str.

Simon Winchester

Opis

The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him.

Recenzje

Winchesters Buch bietet viel: einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der englischen Sprache, einen Einblick in die psychiatrischen Anstalten des viktorianischen England, die Schilderung einer außergewöhnlichen intellektuellen Freundschaft zweier Männer. Leider gibt es keinen passenden englischen Ausdruck für das, was er geschaffen hat, so müssen wir uns mit "tour de force" begnügen. (The Times)

O autorze

Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC. He has written numerous books. The River at the Centre of the World (Viking 1997/Penguin 1998) has been shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.