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The Surgeon of Crowthorne

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First published: 1998
Pages: 174

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne book, download the PDF version of this book from here and you can read the book online from here too. The book unveils the intriguing story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and one of its most significant early contributors, Dr. William Chester Minor. Despite being a retired U.S. Army surgeon and a millionaire, Minor was also a patient at the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum in Berkshire, England.

The book achieved considerable success and was adapted into a film in 2019, “The Professor and the Madman,” featuring Mel Gibson as Murray and Sean Penn as Minor.

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Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal.