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By Winchester Simon
Simon Winchester - 2005
This book chronicles the ambitious undertaking of creating the Oxford English Dictionary. It tells the extraordinary story of two remarkable men whose obsessions shaped literary history. The project's overseer, Professor James Murray, was astonished by the contributions of Dr. W. C. Minor, a man who submitted over ten thousand definitions. Their surprise deepened upon discovering Dr. Minor was an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.