Nonfiction fans can read the book\, watch the movie\, or both at our quarterly meetings. Sweet treats served.
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\n\nThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder\, Insanity\, and the Maki ng of the Oxford English Dictionary (Book) by Simon Winchester
\nThe Professor and the Madman (DVD)
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\n(Book Description)
\nThe creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857\, took seventy years to co mplete\, and drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds. But hidden wi thin the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious \;sto ry. Professor James Murray was the distinguished editor of the OED project . Dr. William Chester Minor\, an American surgeon who had served in the Ci vil War\, was one of thousands of contributors to the dictionary. But Mino r was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific\, sending thousa nds of neat\, hand-written quotations from his home. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work\, but Murray' s offer was regularly\, mysteriously\, refused. Finally\, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray would finally learn the tru th about Minor ... that\, in addition to being a masterly wordsmith\, Mino r was also a murderer\, clinically insane - and locked up in Broadmoor\, E ngland's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics.
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