![]() ![]() ![]() One sees here the redemptive potential of work and love in even the most deeply, 'hopelessly,' psychotic.” - Oliver Sacks, M.D. “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. “Elegant and scrupulous.” - David Walton, New York Times Book Review has written a splendid book.” - The Economist ![]() “An extraordinary tale, and Simon Winchester could not have told it better. “A brisk, gracefully executed work of popular intellectual history, a model of its kind.” - Washington Post “A fascinating, spicy, learned tale.” - Richard Bernstein, New York Times ![]()
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